Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 12:43:05 +0200 From: Gustaf Tham <gus@algonet.se> To: FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: How can KDE 2.0 be so slow? Message-ID: <20010725121303.C3D4.GUS@algonet.se>
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Hello, KDE apps take a long time to fire up... Is this simply because KDE has become bloated? As an example, it takes 6 seconds for the smallish KDE game shisen-sho to start up. This is FreeBSD 4.3 with KDE 2.0 and XFree86 4.01 Under Mandrake, using the same KDE and X, the same app starts in 7 seconds. As expected, FreeBSD is a little faster. But: The very same app starts in just _one_ second on the same box, but this is under KDE 1.1.2 and (sorry) Debian potato and XFree86 3.3.6. My Compaq laptop may not be a Cray, but it's got 196MB, a PII 266 and S3Virge MX. Is it really possible that the new versions of KDE decrease performance this much? Will switch to WindowMaker. Or something. Appreciate your comments; hope you don't feel this is too OT. Best regards Gustaf Tham Sweden reply to: gus@algonet.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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