[CLUE-Tech] X-Sever/KDE "tuning"

[Adam_Bultman at gmx.net]

That sounds wretchedly slow.  My PIII 500 And celeron 550 roar with linux--
except when I'm compiling a million things at once.    

Check what services you are running.  I bet you there are lots of services
that are running you don't need.  As well, download/compile the newest kernel
source (www.kernel.org).  You can take out a lot of things that might make
things go slow.

As well. KDE is slow to begin with.  It's got nice sounds, etc, but BlackBox
and Windowmaker are far faster.

adam

> Randy Arabie wrote:
> 
> > I've been using RH Linux for 3+ years now, but stayed away 
> > from the GUI.  This was mainly due to the low budget, hand-
> > me-down, ancient hardware (486's) I have for home PC usage.  
> > And, I wasn't using Linux as a "productivity" machine...I 
> > didn't need it for word processing, spreadsheets, etc....
> > 
> > I do have a "modern" box at home that, until Saturday, was 
> > running Windoze 2000.  However, I liberated it, and it is now 
> > running RH 7.1 (would be 7.2 or another 'flavor' if my @home 
> > service wouldn't have died).
> 
> 
> Good for you! I'm sure your computer appreciates it. :)
> 
> 
> > I like the new KDE "look and feel" however, I'm not at all 
> > impressed with the performance.  Things load really slow.  I 
> > launch an application and then sit and wait, watch the 
> > "spinning disc" icon down on the toolbar, it disappears, then 
> > I wait a little longer, and then suddenly my application 
> > appears.  The total time varies, but even a simple x-term 
> > took 23 seconds to load.
> 
> 
> That sounds unusually slow. There are a couple of things you can
> do that will help, though...
> 
> 1. Turn off extra eye-candy & such. For instance, you'll see quite
> an improvement dragging windows if you change the settings to not
> display contents of moving windows (in the KControl Panel). There
> are a lot of extras in KDE that can be turned off to get better
> performance.
> 2. Reduce the number of virtual desktops.
> 3. Upgrade KDE to 2.2.2 when @Home comes back up -- that will show
> some improvement, each new release has some performance improvements.
> 4. Try less memory-intensive window manager/desktops. Even though I
> have a monster desktop, I use XFce most of the time -- it's pretty
> full-featured and it screams. It's not quite as visually appealing as
> GNOME or KDE, but much, much faster. WindowMaker and IceWM are also
> pretty speedy.
> 
>  
> > Does anyone have any tips for improving (tunining) the 
> > performance of X or the window manager?  
> > 
> > My system is an AMD K6II 500 with 256 MB RAM, and 10 GB IDE 
> > HD.  The video card I'm using is a S3 ViRGE/DX with 4 MB 
> > memory onboard.
> 
>  >
> 
> > I expect the first recommendation to be upgrade the video 
> > card.  That may be an option, but I'm hoping I can find 
> > another solution.  I don't play games, so I'm not after that 
> > sort of performance.  I do a little graphics for webpage 
> > design.  However, my wife had Photoshop 6 on Windoze 2000 and 
> > the system handled that fine...shouldn't Linux be able to do 
> > it too?
> 
> 
> Yes, but... the drivers may not be as well optimized for Linux
> as they were for Windows. Also, is this a PCI or AGP video card?
> You'll see dramatic improvement switching from a PCI video card
> to an AGP card. You can find some nice cheap cards that run
> with Linux at ComputerGeeks.com.
> 
> What version of XFree86 are you using? Upgrading XFree might
> show some performance improvment as well.
> 
> Take care,
> 
> Zonker
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