Re: slooooooow

2002-08-11 Thread John Gay
On Sun 11 Aug 2002 22:58, Frank Van Damme wrote: > On Saturday 10 August 2002 15:37, Josep Febrer wrote: > > A Divendres 09 Agost 2002 22:18, John Gay va escriure: > > > choosing a window manager that > > > didn't try to use excesive amounts of memory would yield much better > > > results. > > I'm

Re: slooooooow

2002-08-11 Thread Frank Van Damme
On Saturday 10 August 2002 15:37, Josep Febrer wrote: > A Divendres 09 Agost 2002 22:18, John Gay va escriure: > > choosing a window manager that > > didn't try to use excesive amounts of memory would yield much better > > results. I'm running windowmaker, which is light and fast and still usable

Re: slooooooow

2002-08-11 Thread Josep Febrer
A Divendres 09 Agost 2002 22:18, John Gay va escriure: > choosing a window manager that > didn't try to use excesive amounts of memory would yield much better > results. Try Equinox you can find at http://ede.sourceforge.net is the fastest desktop that I have seen on Linux. I recommend you to try

Re: slooooooow

2002-08-09 Thread John Gay
On Fri 09 Aug 2002 18:23, Frank Van Damme wrote: > On Saturday 27 July 2002 22:59, Frank Van Damme wrote: > > Yow > > Something I just thought about: > > There seems to be a way to do library prelinking on gnu/linux to shorten > startup times of large applications. Is it possible to do that on debi

Re: slooooooow

2002-08-09 Thread Frank Van Damme
On Saturday 27 July 2002 22:59, Frank Van Damme wrote: > Yow Something I just thought about: There seems to be a way to do library prelinking on gnu/linux to shorten startup times of large applications. Is it possible to do that on debian? It would take away some of my pain ;-) -- Frank Van

Re: slooooooow

2002-07-29 Thread David Bishop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Maybe you meant for this to go to the list? As I'm not the one having the problem :-) > Make sure you have dma enabled on your harddrive ( man hdparm ). > > Cheers, > Sean. - -- A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in.

Re: slooooooow

2002-07-29 Thread David Bishop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 29 July 2002 04:52 am, Frank Van Damme wrote: > On Saturday 27 July 2002 23:24, John Gay wrote: > > On Sat 27 Jul 2002 21:59, Frank Van Damme wrote: > > > Yow > > > > > > Just put my hd (maxtor 40 gigs 5400 rpm for therecord - that's also the

Re: slooooooow

2002-07-29 Thread Frank Van Damme
On Saturday 27 July 2002 23:24, John Gay wrote: > On Sat 27 Jul 2002 21:59, Frank Van Damme wrote: > > Yow > > > > Just put my hd (maxtor 40 gigs 5400 rpm for therecord - that's also the > > one I swap to) into a p133 (48 MB ram) because my athlon cpu burnt. > > This is your problem ^^^ > > KDE

Re: slooooooow

2002-07-27 Thread Carlos Acedo
Give a try to IceWM is good looking, *very* fast and user frendly. It was usable in my old 486 with 24 RAM box Any way KDE rocks! Good luck Hirs Frank Van Damme wrote: Yow Just put my hd (maxtor 40 gigs 5400 rpm for therecord - that's also the one I swap to) into a p133 (48 MB ram) because my at

Re: slooooooow

2002-07-27 Thread John Gay
On Sat 27 Jul 2002 21:59, Frank Van Damme wrote: > Yow > > Just put my hd (maxtor 40 gigs 5400 rpm for therecord - that's also the one > I swap to) into a p133 (48 MB ram) because my athlon cpu burnt. This is your problem ^^^ KDE requires quite a large amount of memory to run. If you consider

slooooooow

2002-07-27 Thread Frank Van Damme
Yow Just put my hd (maxtor 40 gigs 5400 rpm for therecord - that's also the one I swap to) into a p133 (48 MB ram) because my athlon cpu burnt. I just couldn't believe my eyes. I thought kde got faster with 3.0, at least that's what the kde guys promised us. Some stats, taken on my system runni