how to make KDE faster?

[Dexter Filmore]

> It's frustrating when I occasionally boot back to Win2k and see how "snappy"
> 
> my system responds compared to what I'm forced to deal with on a regular 
> basis with FC1 + KDE. I'll buy a new computer, if that is what it will take,
> 
> but please tell me that there is *some* way to make a KDE desktop behave the
> 
> way a computer *should* in the 21st century! :-)

Why don't you try a 21st century computer?: PIII500=joke. Get something with
dual channel DDR RAM interface like nForce2 or i865 and a CPU with lotsa L2
cache, not Celery or Duron (which are jokes, too), this speeds up
significantly.

If that's not your way of conquering problem, switch distros. Gentoo for
example, compile everything with -O3 -march=i686 (might take a year with
PIII500).
Or Slackware.
Or if you want to stay with FC1, try at least recompiling kernel (custom, no
funny mumbo jumbo like experimental FireWire support and AppleTalk ;) ), X and
KDE with said optimizations.
Try disabling as many services you don't need. 
If you have two drives: move swap to the one where Linux does *not* sit on so
the OS can do what the OS has to do and swapping doesn't get in its way.
If you are running KDE3.2, check for mem leaks with top. I had some serious
trouble there which made me go back to 3.1.5 for the moment.

That's what comes to my mind so far.

Dex
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