From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 25 3:44:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tninet.se (lennier.tninet.se [195.100.94.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6B9D37B403 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 03:44:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gus@algonet.se) Received: from laptop (sdu121-223.ppp.algonet.se [195.163.223.121]) by lennier.tninet.se (BLUETAIL Mail Robustifier 2.2.2) with ESMTP id 887510.57866.996lennier-s1 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 12:44:26 +0200 Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 12:43:05 +0200 From: Gustaf Tham To: FreeBSD-questions Subject: How can KDE 2.0 be so slow? Message-Id: <20010725121303.C3D4.GUS@algonet.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.00.03 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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