comments on KDE performance tips

Melchior FRANZ a8603365 at unet.univie.ac.at
Wed Jan 15 15:11:05 GMT 2003


On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 09:36:12AM -0500, Maks Orlovich wrote:
> The likely reason is that Mandrake initscripts inappropriately clear
> /tmp/kde-* directories on bootup, which forces KDE to rebuild ksyscoca
> cache everytime on bootup. I suggest you comment out that line in
> /etc/rc.d/rc.sysint

That's not "inappropriately", but rather a Linux-FHS recommendation:

 "Although data stored in /tmp may be deleted in a site-specific manner,
  it is recommended that files and directories located in /tmp be deleted
  whenever the system is booted."

m.






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