how to make KDE faster?

[corey_s at cox.net]

Have you used prelink?

http://freshmeat.net/projects/prelink/

Also, for more docs (note prelink isn't a gentoo specific utility, though
this howto is very gentoo oriented - it does explain it a bit):
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/prelink-howto.xml

Also, for a konqueror speed up, don't forget to: 
KDE Components -> KDE Performance -> Preload an instance after KDE startup

... if you haven't already done that.


prelink should definitely give you a noticeable performance boost in startup 
time.


Beers,

Corey


On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 06:10:24PM -0400, Trevor Smith wrote:
> On February 19, 2004 03:59 pm, Dexter Filmore wrote:
> 
> > Why don't you try a 21st century computer?: PIII500=joke. Get something
> 
> Agreed. Like I said, I'll upgrade if that will make a difference. My question, 
> though, is that if Win2k can run quickly with my very old computer, how is it 
> that KDE can't? Will upgrading hardware be *enough*? Or will I always be 
> seeing KDE as slower than Win2k?
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Thanks, I'll look into it.
> 
> > 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
> 
> Ouch. That sounds like a painful solution. Just getting FC1 installed/running 
> from ISOs took a week (long story).
> 
> > Try disabling as many services you don't need.
> 
> Already done.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Good advice, but I'm not having any noticeable slowdowns from disk access. 
> Although my disk is admittedly old and slow, I don't notice it. Just ... 
> silent pauses ... every time a window of any kind is opened in KDE.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Thanks. I can run top, that much I can figure out, but how to interpret a 
> memory leak is a bit beyond me. Any hints?
> 
> -- 
>  Trevor Smith    |    trevor at haligonian.com 
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