Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-13 Thread michele mariottini
Ciao :) Alle 23:42, martedì 8 aprile 2003, Hendrik Sattler ha scritto: > > What's worse is that KDE still takes ages to start, independent on how fast > the system is. KDM starts up fast (although it is still pretty slow), too, > so somewhere must be a big problem in the startup routine. The whole

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-10 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 10:13:15PM +0200, Frank Van Damme wrote: > On Thursday 10 April 2003 14:34, Daniel Stone wrote: > > xfree86 (4.3.0-0ds3v2) unstable; urgency=low > > [...] > > * debian/xfree86-common.init: > > + Now automatically makes /tmp/.ICE-unix, and makes it root.root 1777. > >

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-10 Thread Frank Van Damme
On Thursday 10 April 2003 14:34, Daniel Stone wrote: > xfree86 (4.3.0-0ds3v2) unstable; urgency=low > [...] > * debian/xfree86-common.init: > + Now automatically makes /tmp/.ICE-unix, and makes it root.root 1777. > This increases KDE startup time dramatically. No, really. patch: DEcrea

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-10 Thread Jan Schulz
Hello, It's getting Off Topic :) * Yven Johannes Leist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (I really wonder why nobody else thought of getting rid, or least modifying > the horribly annoying splashscreen before...) You can do that as well with your debian packages (and probably with every other versio

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-10 Thread Yven Johannes Leist
On Wednesday 09 April 2003 20:41, Gaute Hvoslef Kvalnes wrote: [...] > Sun didn't create StarOffice, they bought it from Star Division (a > German company, I think), who developed it until version 5.2. Since > then, it has really been made faster, but there's still a long way to > go. If you compar

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-10 Thread Jan Schulz
* Randy Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And I keep getting confused -- did Star somehow acquire the old > Wordstar? And incorporated parts of it in Star Office? Nope: StarOffice was created by a guy from Germany some years back. Something like the Compaq/HP garage thingie :). He founded Sta

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-10 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 10:06:07PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 01:02:13PM +0200, Frank Van Damme wrote: > > I know. I run your packages! :) > > > > But Branden does the official version isn't it? > > > > Errr... who dares to send him an email? :) > > Well, Branden will

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-10 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 01:02:13PM +0200, Frank Van Damme wrote: > I know. I run your packages! :) > > But Branden does the official version isn't it? > > Errr... who dares to send him an email? :) Well, Branden will be using my 4.3 debs as a base for his 4.3 debs. I'll have a chat to him about

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-10 Thread Frank Van Damme
On Thursday 10 April 2003 11:26, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 10:56:13AM +0200, Frank Van Damme wrote: > > On Thursday 10 April 2003 07:54, Daniel Stone wrote: > > > > Do you think that /etc/init.d/xfree86-common should create this? It > > > > shouldn't be THAT difficult to have /

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-10 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 10:56:13AM +0200, Frank Van Damme wrote: > On Thursday 10 April 2003 07:54, Daniel Stone wrote: > > > Do you think that /etc/init.d/xfree86-common should create this? It > > > shouldn't be THAT difficult to have /etc/init.d/xfree86-common look for > > > configuration files

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-10 Thread Frank Van Damme
On Thursday 10 April 2003 07:54, Daniel Stone wrote: > > Do you think that /etc/init.d/xfree86-common should create this? It > > shouldn't be THAT difficult to have /etc/init.d/xfree86-common look for > > configuration files specifying which directories to create etc. > > I can't see why not, no

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-10 Thread Frank Van Damme
On Wednesday 09 April 2003 20:41, Gaute Hvoslef Kvalnes wrote: > Sun didn't create StarOffice, they bought it from Star Division (a > German company, I think), who developed it until version 5.2. Since > then, it has really been made faster, but there's still a long way to > go. If you compare it t

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-10 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Donnerstag, 10. April 2003 08:44, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 06:19:04PM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > > I read that but it does not explain why the other method is 3-4 times > > (!) slower. Especially, because the sockets in /tmp/.ICE-unix are > > owned by me! So there must

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-10 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 06:19:04PM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > I read that but it does not explain why the other method is 3-4 times (!) > slower. Especially, because the sockets in /tmp/.ICE-unix are owned by me! > So there must be an if-then-else code somewhere that causes this behaviour. >

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-10 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 10:40:40AM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > Do you think that /etc/init.d/xfree86-common should create this? It > shouldn't > be THAT difficult to have /etc/init.d/xfree86-common look for configuration > files specifying which directories to create etc. I can't see why not

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-09 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 9 Apr 2003 15:44, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 10:21:43PM -0700, Terry Milnes wrote: > > Here is the scoop. I added 32 more MBs of memory for the time being until > > I can go to town and pick up a stick of SDRAM 133. Also, I get an error > > when trying to chown root.root

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-09 Thread Randy Kramer
On Wednesday 09 April 2003 02:41 pm, Gaute Hvoslef Kvalnes wrote: > Sun didn't create StarOffice, they bought it from Star Division (a > German company, I think), who developed it until version 5.2. Since > then, it has really been made faster, but there's still a long way to > go. If you compare i

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-09 Thread Gaute Hvoslef Kvalnes
Aryan Ameri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > There was a time, when Sun was known for producing fast, secure and > stable code. e.g back in mid 90s, everyone (even their competitors) > agreed that Solaris was the best *nix ever. When in 2000 they > announced their plan for staroffice/openoffice.Bor

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-09 Thread Frank Van Damme
On Wednesday 09 April 2003 18:19, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > I read that but it does not explain why the other method is 3-4 times (!) > slower. Especially, because the sockets in /tmp/.ICE-unix are owned by me! > So there must be an if-then-else code somewhere that causes this behaviour. > I'm not s

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-09 Thread Frank Van Damme
On Wednesday 09 April 2003 16:46, Aryan Ameri wrote: > > Yes... bad design, bloat, redundant code, all the horrors in one... > > We use it at home because of the good support for MS office formats > > though. > > Yup, actually OOo is the worst software, which I *have* to use everyday. > Only for t

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-09 Thread Hendrik Sattler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Mittwoch, 9. April 2003 07:44 schrieb Daniel Stone: > On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 10:21:43PM -0700, Terry Milnes wrote: > > Here is the scoop. I added 32 more MBs of memory for the time being until > > I can go to town and pick up a stick of SDRAM 133.

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-09 Thread Mika Fischer
On Wednesday 09 April 2003 13:03, Frank Van Damme wrote: > > It's pretty simple - there's even a HOWTO around. > Url? Could be: http://dforce.sh.cvut.cz/~seli/download/tips.html Cheers, Mika pgpvUidZtKby0.pgp Description: signature

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-09 Thread Hendrik Sattler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Mittwoch, 9. April 2003 03:34 schrieb Daniel Stone: > On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 03:11:31AM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > > I just tried the > > chown root.root /tmp/.ICE-unix > > /etc/init.d/kdm restart > > and it really kicks it. Increadibl

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-09 Thread Hendrik Sattler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Mittwoch, 9. April 2003 08:11 schrieb Matt Sheffield: > That method has improved performance for me. However by default, Debian > deletes the contents of the /tmp directory on reboot. Thus, the .ICE-unix > and all of the mcop and dcop directories ne

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-09 Thread Aryan Ameri
On Wednesday 09 April 2003 15:23, Frank Van Damme wrote: > On Wednesday 09 April 2003 13:26, Daniel Stone wrote: > > > OOo is also ridiculous. It should share nore with the other > > > available open source software - such as widgets. I'd be > > > delighted to save my files with those gorgeous QT

Re: landscape PDF bug (was: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User)

2003-04-09 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 09:19:28PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote: > I've seen this problem before a few times, too. It applies to any > landscape PDF file, and affects Ghostview as well as KGhostview and the > Konqueror PDF plugin too. > > In fact I bumped into it this afternoon looking at uni cou

Re: landscape PDF bug (was: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User)

2003-04-09 Thread Cameron Patrick
On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 02:23:07PM +0200, Frank Van Damme wrote: | > > KGhostview is still buggy. The first pdf my dad tried to open with it | > > showed up sideways, off course the rest of the page in place. Grmbl... | > | > Did you report a bug? :) | | IIRC, the data was confidential. I've see

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-09 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 02:23:07PM +0200, Frank Van Damme wrote: > On Wednesday 09 April 2003 13:26, Daniel Stone wrote: > > Well, I'm talking Australian dollars. There was a reason why I still had > > the PII when I *maintained* KDE. > > Ugh... Must be painful to compile c++ code on such a box.

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-09 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 02:21:06PM +0200, Frank Van Damme wrote: > On Wednesday 09 April 2003 13:31, Daniel Stone wrote: > > Um, I'm not a "hardware is so cheap today" guy. I've spent most of the > > thread pointing out why saying "hardware's cheap, go buy it" is a > > ridiculous assertion. > > Wa

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-09 Thread Frank Van Damme
On Wednesday 09 April 2003 13:26, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 01:03:38PM +0200, Frank Van Damme wrote: > > On Wednesday 09 April 2003 11:56, Daniel Stone wrote: > > > Maybe in, say, DDR. > > > > 256 megs ddr = 80 euro. Reason my box has 256 meg :) I'll upgrade once I > > have a ga

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-09 Thread Frank Van Damme
On Wednesday 09 April 2003 13:31, Daniel Stone wrote: > Um, I'm not a "hardware is so cheap today" guy. I've spent most of the > thread pointing out why saying "hardware's cheap, go buy it" is a > ridiculous assertion. Was still pointing at KL... > > Yes I am talking about EDO ram of course! eve

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-09 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 12:15:13PM +0200, Frank Van Damme wrote: > On Wednesday 09 April 2003 09:22, Daniel Stone wrote: > > Umm, it's still about $au60-80; people often don't have that money to > > spare. My AthlonXP 2400+ is a direct upgrade from the PII 350, which I > > had for ages. > > Oh gos

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-09 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 01:03:38PM +0200, Frank Van Damme wrote: > On Wednesday 09 April 2003 11:56, Daniel Stone wrote: > > Maybe in, say, DDR. > > 256 megs ddr = 80 euro. Reason my box has 256 meg :) I'll upgrade once I have > a game that needs more for textures. Well, I'm talking Australian d

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-09 Thread Frank Van Damme
On Wednesday 09 April 2003 11:56, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 11:10:05AM +0200, Karolina Lindqvist wrote: > > onsdagen den 9 april 2003 09.22 skrev Daniel Stone: > > > Not to mention 64mb. > > > > Well, where I live, 128MB appears to be the smallest size sold in common > > shops.

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-09 Thread Frank Van Damme
On Wednesday 09 April 2003 09:22, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 08:50:29AM +0200, Karolina Lindqvist wrote: > > onsdagen den 9 april 2003 07.44 skrev Daniel Stone: > > > 256mb of RAM is an irresponsible figure > > > to be bandying around. > > > > Memory chips often comes in 128MB i

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-09 Thread Frank Van Damme
On Wednesday 09 April 2003 07:19, Karolina Lindqvist wrote: > Which is why I say that for practical purposes, it appears that 256MB is a > reasonable amount of RAM, in my opinion. Unless you run just only kmail + > one instance of konqueror and noth more. Then 128MB might be allright. > Which does

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-09 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 11:10:05AM +0200, Karolina Lindqvist wrote: > onsdagen den 9 april 2003 09.22 skrev Daniel Stone: > > Not to mention 64mb. > > Well, where I live, 128MB appears to be the smallest size sold in common > shops. Maybe in, say, DDR. > > The point is that your figures of 256m

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-09 Thread Karolina Lindqvist
onsdagen den 9 april 2003 09.22 skrev Daniel Stone: > Not to mention 64mb. Well, where I live, 128MB appears to be the smallest size sold in common shops. > The point is that your figures of 256mb are extremely irresponsible, > considering users respect you somewhat for your packaging, and I'd

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-09 Thread Søren Friis-Nielsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Stone wrote: |> I have edited /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh I haven't rebooted yet, so I |> don't know if it works. | | Probably, but you're not getting rid of any stale files inside of | .ICE-unix. :) True. I could discard that and instead do the foll

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-09 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 09:09:54AM +0200, S?ren Friis-Nielsen wrote: > I have edited /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh > About 40 lines down I added a line: > > ( cd /tmp && \ > ~ find . -xdev \ > ~ $TEXPR \ > ~ ! -name . \ > ~ ! \( -name lost+found -uid 0 \) \ > ~ ! \( -name quota.user -uid 0 \) \ > ~

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-09 Thread Michael Thaler
On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 08:22:51AM +0200, Karolina Lindqvist wrote: > The whole discussion was how much RAM is needed, and in my opinion, 128MB is > too little. It works, but causes a lot of swapping with normal things like > web browsing etc. The best and cheapest speed up for a 128MB system is

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-09 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 08:50:29AM +0200, Karolina Lindqvist wrote: > onsdagen den 9 april 2003 07.44 skrev Daniel Stone: > > 256mb of RAM is an irresponsible figure > > to be bandying around. > > Memory chips often comes in 128MB increments, don't they? Not to mention 64mb. > So the choice is

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-09 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 08:34:43AM +0200, Karolina Lindqvist wrote: > That might be. Which program is a good presentation tool? Some that > graphically shows me what all the RAM is used for. > I use it to get an approximate picture of what is going on. The individual > numbers are not important,

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-09 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 02:11:27AM -0400, Matt Sheffield wrote: > That method has improved performance for me. However by default, Debian > deletes the contents of the /tmp directory on reboot. Thus, the .ICE-unix and > all of the mcop and dcop directories need to be recreated each time you start

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-09 Thread Søren Friis-Nielsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matt Sheffield wrote: | That method has improved performance for me. However by default, Debian | deletes the contents of the /tmp directory on reboot. Thus, the .ICE-unix and | all of the mcop and dcop directories need to be recreated each time you sta

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-09 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 08:22:51AM +0200, Karolina Lindqvist wrote: > The normal web browsers appears to be pretty bad, when it comes to memory. > Just starting netscape/mozilla, will eat 75MB of RAM. Each instance of > konqueror takes around 10MB extra. They also causes X to allocate more > mem

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-09 Thread Mark Constable
On Wed, 9 Apr 2003 04:11 pm, Matt Sheffield wrote: > That method has improved performance for me. However by default, Debian > deletes the contents of the /tmp directory on reboot. Thus, the .ICE-unix > ... > time. I'd like to disable /tmp clearing and clean things up myself. How > does one go abou

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-09 Thread Karolina Lindqvist
onsdagen den 9 april 2003 07.44 skrev Daniel Stone: > 256mb of RAM is an irresponsible figure > to be bandying around. Memory chips often comes in 128MB increments, don't they? So the choice is between 128 or 256. My recommendation is to get that 256. The cost is not great nowadays. 128Mb is abo

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-09 Thread Karolina Lindqvist
onsdagen den 9 april 2003 00.25 skrev Andreas Pakulat: > What are you all doing? kdeinit has 58Megs here, running. And I don't > think that gmemusage is a good presentation tool, it shows me that: > xmms(178XXXK) + galeon-bin(218232K) + python2.1(144408K) = 540 Megs. > Which is what I got totally

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-09 Thread Anders Ellenshøj Andersen
On Wednesday 09 April 2003 03:34, Daniel Stone wrote: > > I just tried the > > chown root.root /tmp/.ICE-unix > > /etc/init.d/kdm restart > > and it really kicks it. Increadible but this this reduces the KDE startup > > time to 1/3. Maybe there are other tweaks. I will go on trying, maybe

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-09 Thread Karolina Lindqvist
onsdagen den 9 april 2003 00.32 skrev kosh: > X memory usage is evil black magic to figure out. > It also includes AGP mapped memory, pixmaps and stuff that programs have > open get charged to X and damned if I know how much other stuff it has. At > one point I had X showing it was using 1G of ram

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-09 Thread Matt Sheffield
That method has improved performance for me. However by default, Debian deletes the contents of the /tmp directory on reboot. Thus, the .ICE-unix and all of the mcop and dcop directories need to be recreated each time you start your machine up from scratch. But once these things have been set up

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-09 Thread Anders Ellenshøj Andersen
On Wednesday 09 April 2003 00:32, kosh wrote: > X memory usage is evil black magic to figure out. X is evil! Use fresco! - http://www.fresco.org -- This email was generated using KMail from KDE 3.1 on Debian GNU/Linux

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-09 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 10:21:43PM -0700, Terry Milnes wrote: > Here is the scoop. I added 32 more MBs of memory for the time being until I > can go to town and pick up a stick of SDRAM 133. Also, I get an error when > trying to chown root.root /tmp/.ICE-unix. It says something about no such > dire

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-09 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 07:19:06AM +0200, Karolina Lindqvist wrote: > onsdagen den 9 april 2003 01.18 skrev Daniel Stone: > > I thought you'd know that saying how much memory kdeinit takes is > > *utterly* *useless*. Obviously not. > > It is not useless, as it says how much RAM is taken by KDE + s

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-09 Thread Terry Milnes
be a problem? Should I add it to bootmisc.sh as stated earlier? TIA!! NeoFax - Original Message - From: "Daniel Stone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Karolina Lindqvist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Debian-KDE" Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 4:18 PM Subje

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-09 Thread Karolina Lindqvist
onsdagen den 9 april 2003 01.18 skrev Daniel Stone: > I thought you'd know that saying how much memory kdeinit takes is > *utterly* *useless*. Obviously not. It is not useless, as it says how much RAM is taken by KDE + some of the applications. gmemusage just can't give a more find graded approa

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-08 Thread Patrick Dreker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Mittwoch, 9. April 2003 03:11 schrieb Hendrik Sattler: > I just tried the > chown root.root /tmp/.ICE-unix > /etc/init.d/kdm restart > and it really kicks it. Increadible but this this reduces the KDE startup > time to 1/3. Maybe there a

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-08 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 03:11:31AM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > I just tried the > chown root.root /tmp/.ICE-unix > /etc/init.d/kdm restart > and it really kicks it. Increadible but this this reduces the KDE startup > time > to 1/3. Maybe there are other tweaks. I will go on trying

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-08 Thread Hendrik Sattler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Mittwoch, 9. April 2003 00:47 schrieb Patrick Dreker: > > What's worse is that KDE still takes ages to start, independent on how > > fast the system is. KDM starts up fast (although it is still pretty > > slow), too, so somewhere must be a big probl

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-08 Thread Frank Van Damme
On Wednesday 09 April 2003 00:47, Patrick Dreker wrote: > Sure. top readings for memory have a history of being annoyingly easy to > misunderstand (read: being wrong). IIRC these memory readings show all mem > used by shared libs as belonging to the app, so these are displayed > multiple times. Is

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-08 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 10:23:46PM +0200, Karolina Lindqvist wrote: > tisdagen den 8 april 2003 05.39 skrev Terry Milnes: > > I have 128MB of RAM and it seems to always be completely used up when I am > > logged in as user. I know that this could be causing my slowdown, but what > > else can be cau

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-08 Thread Patrick Dreker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Dienstag, 8. April 2003 23:42 schrieb Hendrik Sattler: > Am Dienstag, 8. April 2003 23:08 schrieb Patrick Dreker: > > The X memory usage includes AGP mem. So if your card has 32 meg of RAM > > you have to subtract this first. My X reports 290 megs u

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-08 Thread kosh
On Tuesday 08 April 2003 03:42 pm, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Am Dienstag, 8. April 2003 23:08 schrieb Patrick Dreker: > > The X memory usage includes AGP mem. So if your card has 32 meg of RAM > > you have to subtract this first. My X reports 290 m

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-08 Thread Andreas Pakulat
On 08.Apr 2003 - 23:08:36, Patrick Dreker wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Sorry, forgot to CC the mailing list... > > Am Dienstag, 8. April 2003 22:23 schrieb Karolina Lindqvist: > > xfree86 115MB! > > What is the X server doing with all that RAM? > > Not, it is n

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-08 Thread Marc Schiffbauer
* Karolina Lindqvist schrieb am 08.04.03 um 22:23 Uhr: > tisdagen den 8 april 2003 05.39 skrev Terry Milnes: > > I have 128MB of RAM and it seems to always be completely used up when I am > > logged in as user. I know that this could be causing my slowdown, but what > > else can be causing it? Seco

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-08 Thread Hendrik Sattler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Dienstag, 8. April 2003 23:08 schrieb Patrick Dreker: > The X memory usage includes AGP mem. So if your card has 32 meg of RAM you > have to subtract this first. My X reports 290 megs used, but I have 128 > megs of that on my graphics board. 290-12

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-08 Thread Patrick Dreker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry, forgot to CC the mailing list... Am Dienstag, 8. April 2003 22:23 schrieb Karolina Lindqvist: > xfree86 115MB! > What is the X server doing with all that RAM? > Not, it is not a memory leak. I quitted xsane, and gqview, and it went down > t

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-08 Thread Karolina Lindqvist
tisdagen den 8 april 2003 05.39 skrev Terry Milnes: > I have 128MB of RAM and it seems to always be completely used up when I am > logged in as user. I know that this could be causing my slowdown, but what > else can be causing it? Secondly, how do I speed things up without > installing more RAM?

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-08 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "Casper Gielen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Op dinsdag 8 april 2003 13:11, schreef Daniel Stone: > > On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 12:53:27PM +0200, S?ren Friis-Nielsen wrote: > > > Daniel Stone wrote: > > > |>>> > > > |>>> Try running 'chown root.root /tmp/.ICE-unix' when you log in. > > > > > > Is the

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-08 Thread Casper Gielen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Op dinsdag 8 april 2003 13:11, schreef Daniel Stone: > On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 12:53:27PM +0200, S?ren Friis-Nielsen wrote: > > Daniel Stone wrote: > > |>>> > > |>>> Try running 'chown root.root /tmp/.ICE-unix' when you log in. > > > > Is there a good

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-08 Thread Frank Van Damme
On Tuesday 08 April 2003 13:11, Daniel Stone wrote: > I put it in the same /etc/init.d script that wipes out /tmp (sysmisc.sh > or somesuch), but that feels kinda wrong. :) Doesn't Debian set up /tmp/.X11-unix allready on boot? I wonder why that script doesn't do that with ICE-unix. -- Frank Va

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-08 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 12:53:27PM +0200, S?ren Friis-Nielsen wrote: > Daniel Stone wrote: > | I have 128MB of RAM and it seems to always be completely used > | up when I am logged in as user. I know that this could be > | causing my slowdown, but what else can be causing it? > | S

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-08 Thread Søren Friis-Nielsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Stone wrote: | I have 128MB of RAM and it seems to always be completely used | up when I am logged in as user. I know that this could be | causing my slowdown, but what else can be causing it? | Secondly, how do I speed things up

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-08 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 11:30:05AM +0200, Frank Van Damme wrote: > On Tuesday 08 April 2003 09:18, Daniel Stone wrote: > > > > I have 128MB of RAM and it seems to always be completely used up when I > > > > am logged in as user. I know that this could be causing my slowdown, > > > > but what else c

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-08 Thread Frank Van Damme
On Tuesday 08 April 2003 09:18, Daniel Stone wrote: > > > I have 128MB of RAM and it seems to always be completely used up when I > > > am logged in as user. I know that this could be causing my slowdown, > > > but what else can be causing it? Secondly, how do I speed things up > > > without instal

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-08 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 04:55:06PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 08:39:17PM -0700, Terry Milnes wrote: > > I have 128MB of RAM and it seems to always be completely used up when I am > > logged in as user. I know that this could be causing my slowdown, but what > > else can

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-08 Thread Daniel Stone
On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 08:39:17PM -0700, Terry Milnes wrote: > I have 128MB of RAM and it seems to always be completely used up when I am > logged in as user. I know that this could be causing my slowdown, but what > else can be causing it? Secondly, how do I speed things up without installing

KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-07 Thread Terry Milnes
I have 128MB of RAM and it seems to always be completely used up when I am logged in as user. I know that this could be causing my slowdown, but what else can be causing it? Secondly, how do I speed things up without installing more RAM?   NeoFax