comments on KDE performance tips

[Maks Orlovich]

On Wednesday 15 January 2003 01:36 am, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> On 13 Jan 2003 at 15:03, Alexander Kellett wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 06:28:05AM -0800, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > > And what's the alternative?  Tell them to learn a foreign language
> > > while waiting for KDE apps to load?
> >
> > new binutils (with combreloc) + a new glibc.
> > i.e, any of the new distributions.
>
> I have been reading this list for some 3-4 days and I can't help to notice
> that all the discussions are centred to linux.
>
> Nothing  wrong with that but when we are looking at optimising KDE,
> cross-OS performance should be seen as well.
>
> I have a dual boot PC at home. Mandrake 9 and freeBSD4.7. They have almost
> same version of KDE, 3.0.4 and 3.0.3
>
> When I say startx in mandrake, it takes 45 sec. to come up with KDE with
> sessions running which includes a sole konsole.

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 
(Search for "#GNOME and KDE related cleanup")