"Bruce Best (CRO)" wrote: > I have a virtually identical setup; AMD K6-2 450, 192 MB RAM, IDE hard [...] ^^^^^^^^ > I recently added 128Mb RAM to this system, going from 64 to 192Mb. I thought > it might speed things up, but I haven't really noticed any difference with > KDE.
Application startup takes ages for me too; on a notebook of mine, it went away when I deleted the .kde user directory. On another computer, this didn't help but he had a resolv.conf entry for some nameservers that weren't reachable; this caused *extensive* slowdown. I found out about that with stat, the process was hanging in a DNS query poll. On my current system, I also get slowdown, but I assume it is because the mainboard for my K6-2 333 has a cacheable area of just 64 MB; this means any memory above this is painfully slow. This would hurt at application startup time I suppose... Maybe one of these things helps you! -Yours Malte #8-)
