[ILUG] slow response from kde apps

[( Admin ) bryan]

Declan Grady wrote:

>Hi,
>On a Pentium2-400MHz dell laptop with 256MB ram, and a few hundred megs of 
>free disk space, I am using debain 3.0, with a 2.4.22 kernel, and kde3.
>
>My apps seem to run quite slowly - things like Kmail, mozilla-firefox, even 
>Konqueror takes a while starting up.
>
>I've been living with this, as just having an old laptop, but when I see the 
>same laptop running doze98, it flys along by comparison, with 
>lookout-express, and the dreaded ms-ie6.
>
>I was running iwth 128 RAM and chnaged to 256 thinking it would help, but 
>doesnt seem to have made any difference.
>
>Being a perpetual linux newbie, I dont really know where to start looking for 
>things that are slowing it down.
>I dor get an error at kde startup saying "could not start kdeinit" since I 
>upgraded to kde3 (using apt-get), but clicking OK lets kde startup as normal 
>- I dont suspect this as a cause of slowness. 
>
>Any suggestions (apart from the obvious "buy a new laptop") ?
>
>Thanks
>Declan
>  
>
Kill all unnecessary services. Make sure the sgi_fam/fam process is running
( either in xinet.d or in the init scripts ), get a 2.6 kernel, make 
sure hardware
open GL is working ( this can slow down KDE if you are using things like 
transparent
windows )

I would compare your system to one which was running windows 2000 server in
terms of resource usage.

I do not think ( I know) that windows 2000 server would run very fast on a
system such as that.

Perhaps it is time to take a trip to the credit union.

--B