You need more RAM than that to effectively run KDE. Unfortunately, the majority of developers have decided to focus on features before speed. Perhaps if you ran a lighter-weight window manager such as xfce or Windowmaker.
_mws_ On Thursday 21 November 2002 02:43 am, Laura Rudmin wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Debian Sid Pentium, and KDE 3.0.4 and KDM. I have a 32 > MByte machine, with about 256 Mbytes swap. > > I have noticed what *might* be a bug, or might just be bad design > somewhere... I don't know. > > Anyhow, in KDE, if I open two or three memory-intensive programs, > such as Mozilla + kpackage, or Mozilla+Konquerer (several windows), I > suddenly find my hard disk running all the time. This continues, even > if I close the applications. It's like, once the swap gets activated, > it never stops swapping, and never spins down. At that point, I can > count on 5-10% of normal speed from then on, for *everything*. > > That continues, even if I shutdown KDE and try to log on as a > different user. Eventually, it seems that I have to shutdown the > machine, though I haven't yet tried just shutting down X and KDM and > just running from the command line. > > Anyhow, I'm not even sure what this is classified as (-bug, -design > request, or what) , or where (Debian? KDE? X?). Nor do I know if this > is a known issue. So I figured, why not first bounce this up to > debian-kde, and see if anyone knows about this. From there, we can > figure out where to send it next.
