From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 28 04:25:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA23562 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 04:25:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (cyclone.degnet.baynet.de [194.95.214.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id EAA23506 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 04:25:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malte@webmore.com) Received: from neuron.webmore.de (unverified [194.95.214.160]) by cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id ; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 13:24:26 +0200 Received: (from malte@webmore.com) by neuron.webmore.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA01618; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 13:20:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Malte Lance MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 13:20:46 +0200 (CEST) To: "Aleksandar Obradovic" Cc: Reply-To: malte.lance@gmx.net Subject: Re: Performance Issues In-Reply-To: <007801bdb993$c18cc080$27caae10@obradoa.fnic> References: <007801bdb993$c18cc080$27caae10@obradoa.fnic> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <13757.36573.208194.876525@neuron.webmore.de> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Aleksandar Obradovic writes: > I just installed FreeBSD 2.2.6 with X windows, and KDE X win manager on my > P-166 (1 GB SCSI, 32 MB RAM, 74MB Swap). I run into some performance issues > with some X win apps, like Netscape (few versions) and XEmacs. Netscape > Browser and XEmacs take about 2-3 minutes to load from the time I fire them > off. Is there something that I should fine tune in order to bring up > performance of these two apps? 2-3 minutes loading time sounds very drastic > to me! On the other hand graphic package GIMPS starts right up, 10 -15 > seconds after I launch it. Seems to be some DNS-lookup. Does netscape try to connect/contact a host on startup. If yes, then configure it to start up with "blank page". W3 in XEmacs by default tries to connect to cs.indiana.edu This can be customized. Have a look in "~/.emacs" Malte. > > Any suggestions/comments? > > Thanks. > > ------- > Aleksandar Obradovic > e-mail: alex@montenegro.com > http://www.montenegro.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message