Hello
Raghunath L wrote:
> Well,
>
> I have found Gnome with sawfish window manager takes lot of time and if i switch to
>enlightenment it is even more my system has 192mb pc100 RAM and 400Mhz
> processor , redhat 6.2 was quite fast in what ever it used to do.
>
> What is ver of kde shipped with redhat 7.
>
RHL 7 does not ship with KDE2 for sure. It must have been KDE1.1.2
>
> Any solution for this looks like everybody needs to have very high end m/c for linux
>for above task.
>
Well not really. I have RHL5.2 CD yet with KDE 1.1.2beta. Not many things are since
changed in KDE world. It worked OK on 486 100/16MB. Of course you can't
expect to watch VCDs on that, but I am going to try KOffice on it. Should be fast
enough...
> This does not sound quite good for feture.
>
Not really. To me, main complaint is loading time. Memory is bit lower on the list. I
can fire all application on my KDE taskbar before first appears on
desktop. As you can imagine, that's quite fast invocation but it takes time that's
arithmatically proportinal to number of programs I invoke. It it works,
always. I never wait for linuk/KDE because it's doing something. I want to to start it
now and I do it types... It works... Always...
If I do that on NT, even with 256MB, 80% of time it will freeze asking for killing few
applications manually, and rest of the 20%, it will be reboot.
>
> Considaring the fact that we still use pentium 100 till today with 32 mb of ram.
>
>
That's a server class machine.... :-))
>
> Is it due kernal of the redhat 7?
>
May be not. Check out your HDD DMA. It makes a hell lot of difference in desktop
performance. Besides GNOME libs draw everything as image/pixmap which hogs
memory. KDE/Qt supposed to it in a better way. I have same experience. So a switch to
KDE is advisable....
One complaint I have about linux is it's swap handling, machine performance dips
noticebly when swap goes beyond 10-12MB. I would expect more from linux in
this case. In fact far more....
At office I work on HP-UX which performs far better in this regard. Machine
performance is almost steady even with 400MB in swap. That's amazing....
OK, HP-UX is no comparison with linux but my home machine is AMD 500MHz and HP-UX
machine is 120MHz, That should compensate it almost. Linux does not do very
well here... :-((
Bye
Shridhar
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