[kde-linux] how to speedup kde?

[James Richard Tyrer]

cnhnln wrote:
> how to speedup kde?

The #1 way is to add more memory; this will make the biggest difference 
if sluggishness is associated with the hard disk light being on.

0.5 GB is really the minimum and 1.0 GB is really what you need.

Virtual memory swaps are the main reason that my system runs slow.

You might think that a faster processor was #1 but it isn't.  If you 
only have 256 MB of memory, a faster processor won't make much 
difference if you have several large apps open -- a faster processor 
won't access the hard disk much faster.

Secondary things are:

If you don't have 1.0 GB of memory, be careful not to run unnecessary 
things.  This doesn't help much -- if you have 1.0 GB of memory, you 
don't have to worry about such things.

In theory having two fast disks will help.  You should have the code and 
swap on one disk and *all* data on the other.  Unfortunately, *NIX 
wasn't designed to work this way.  It is sufficient to have the system 
and swap on one of the disks with "/home & /var on the other.  Some say 
that having more than one partition for your swap space will help (about 
0.5 GB per partition is what I have read).

-- 
JRT