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

[Kevin Barnes]

On Thursday 06 December 2001 07:51, you wrote:
Hello...I agree with Brandon that it's most likely related to network 
connectivity.  I had the same problem on an IBM Laptop with KDE.  When away 
from a network connection things would slow to a painful crawl.  When booting 
up I went into interactive mode and did not start pcmcia services and it 
worked great.  Otherwise it was very responsive with connected to a network.

Kevin

> > > 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.
>
> Which applications are doing that? You may find it's related to a
> network problem.  When I was running KDE I found that some applications
> would take about a minute to load when I was not able to reach my DNS
> server.
>
> Brandon
>
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