Starting KDE faster IF KDE was started when the server

[Jonathan Chen]

> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 19:55:12 +0100
> From: Martijn Klingens <klingens at kde.org>
> 
> Well, what you could do is automatically login to a local KDE 
> session so at least all important files are in the system's 
> caches. After you have loaded this initial session you can 
> logout the session or leave it running to force the system to 
> keep KDE in the working set. The latter can have lots of 
> negative side effects, so be sure to do LOTS of testing to 
> see whether it improves performance. Preloading KDE on boot 
> time and then logging off again should help in any case.
>
Is there any instructions for this? Not an expert with KDE.  I'm too used to
command line. =)
 
> 
> *ESPECIALLY* for terminal servers you should really consider 
> upgrading your KDE. 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4 all sported reduced 
> memory usage and faster performance, so especially if the 
> system will be serving multiple users, by all means consider 
> the newest KDE you can find.
> 
> 
Exactly,  the reason why I said having KDE startup during boot time is so
that when a user logs into a RHEL w/KDE, the system would load up his/her
profile and not completely startup kde.  Basically asking for something like
Win2k3 with Citrix on the server.   Of course in this case its RHEL/KDE with
FreeNX(as citrix equivalent).

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> 
> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:44:01 -0700
> From: Aaron Seigo <aseigo at kde.org>
> 
> if you are using NX, then you can suspend a running session. 
> if you have the 
> RAM to support keeping a KDE session around fulltime (not 
> particularly 
> expensive, but grows with the number of users, obviously), 
> then you could use 
> this suspension feature to create a suspended session. the 
> next time you 
> connect to the machine via NX, you provide your log in 
> credentials and the 
> desktop is "instantly" on.
> 
That would be ideal solution IF the users always connect to the same
machine.  If they are behind a load balancer, the idea would not work at
all.

Also I'm curious how later version of KDE 3.2 and up help in the terminal
server area?