This is a good thread...I'm all ears on performance enhancement techniques. Regarding your question about sendmail...you can stop that from starting up using the Service Configuration program in XWindows. Kill anything that you don't need - it will improve your performance a bit. You can also speed things up using the 'renice' program to adjust the program priority. Something like this in your /etc/rc.local file should help:
/usr/bin/renice -10 -p `/bin/ps -elf | /bin/grep /etc/X11/X | /bin/awk '{print $4}' | /usr/bin/head -1` You might also want to look at things such as the preemptive kernel patch or faster journaling filesystems like reiser. BTW, my system can go from selecting the kernel to boot in grub to a fully loaded KDE desktop in one minute and ten seconds. Not nearly where I'd like it to be (I'd like to see 30-45 seconds), but it is vastly improved from my initial installation. AE -----Original Message----- From: Petri Somerkari [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 3:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: redhat 7.3 and performance Matthew Boeckman wrote: >> Is gnome perhaps lighter than KDE. > > > IMHO, if you really want a screaming fast desktop drop both Gnome and > KDE for WindowMaker (www.windowmaker.org) or other lightweight windows > manager. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list The case is not that I want screaming fast desktop, but I feel I want at least something that is as fast as ms-winXP. At the moment RedHat is not coming close to that. Booting still takes minutes and even opening applications like terminal or mozilla takes nearly 1 minute. While booting the system starts sendmail most of the time... any clues how to get rid of that problem ? P. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list