KDE4 slow

[Jos Poortvliet]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Iñaki Baz Castillo<ibc at aliax.net> wrote:
> 2009/7/14 Allan Sandfeld Jensen <kde at carewolf.com>:
>> On Monday 13 July 2009, Iñaki Baz Castillo wrote:
>>> I don't know which is the issue origin, but my system (KDE4 in a
>>> dual-core 1-GB-RAM laptop) is becoming unusable at all.
>>> Yesterday I had 8 tabs open in Konqueror, Yakuake and Kontact open
>>> (and KDE4 core apps).
>>> Have you ever felt the mouse staggering when moving it around the desktop?
>>> Pressing "New mail" in Kmail takes ~2 seconds (during the first second
>>> I see a gray window and after it I see all the elements being drawn).
>>> Changing from one tab to other in Konqueror was painful and slowww
>>> (again the gray screen and the slow rendering)...
>>>
>>> I hate to say it, but I must come back to KDE3 for my home
>>> environment. It's terribly fast in comparission with KDE4. :(
>>
>> It sounds like you just need to disable desktop effects. It usually
>> deactivates itself though when things get slow.
>
> Disabling desktop effects I feel no difference at all. In fact, the
> only thin going fluid in my KDE4 are the desktops effects (nvidia
> driver).

It's clearly memory, then. You might find a 100 stale KIO processes
running, and a huge memory usage in plasma and probably konsole and
konqi too?!? I know these have always been bad for me, at least at
home (2 weeks ago, KDE svn).

I've heard things about fixes, and it is indeed getting better - I
have 3 gb ram, and it used to fill up every now and then (yes, crazy).
Now it's often around 1-1.5 gb. I run a lot of stuff simultaniously so
I guess that is to be expected but I still would love to see it go
down to 500 or something...

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> Iñaki Baz Castillo
> <ibc at aliax.net>