Re: [PD] linux - faster load first time

2007-10-06 Thread ilya .d
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 11:04:47AM -0400, Kevin McCoy wrote: what distro are you on? Ubuntu Studio Feisty 7.04. I usually do load some GNOME things ocasionally and I wonder if they are staying in the system... I'm running a P4 1.6 GHz 384 MB RAM so I need to keep the memory freed up.

Re: [PD] linux - faster load first time

2007-10-06 Thread Roman Haefeli
On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 16:16 +, ilya .d wrote: On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 11:04:47AM -0400, Kevin McCoy wrote: what distro are you on? Ubuntu Studio Feisty 7.04. I usually do load some GNOME things ocasionally and I wonder if they are staying in the system... I'm running a P4

Re: [PD] linux - faster load first time

2007-10-06 Thread olsen wolf
heppo i'm fluxboxing too f.e. kdeinit in the .fluxbox/startup minimizes startup time for kde programms. On 10/6/07, Roman Haefeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 16:16 +, ilya .d wrote: On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 11:04:47AM -0400, Kevin McCoy wrote: what distro

Re: [PD] linux - faster load first time

2007-10-05 Thread Ilya .d
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 12:51:32PM -0400, Kevin McCoy wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Kevin McCoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Oct 4, 2007 12:51 PM Subject: Re: [PD] linux - faster load first time To: Andy Farnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] I use fluxbox WM, no hassle, no fancy

Re: [PD] linux - faster load first time

2007-10-05 Thread B. Bogart
384MB ram seems a bit low.. (nowadays) My old duron 800 has 1GB. I've not noticed PD starting more slowly than it always has on my feisty or etch machines... you can always try oprofile to see what is using up what (CPU wise) .b. Kevin McCoy wrote: what distro are you on? Ubuntu

Re: [PD] linux - faster load first time

2007-10-04 Thread Kevin McCoy
I notice this not only on Pd but on most programs... gnome-terminal eventually starting taking so long to start up the first couple of times that I gave up and started with xterm, for example. Firefox takes a long time as well and I am using that every day... km On 10/4/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PD] linux - faster load first time

2007-10-04 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Kevin McCoy wrote: I notice this not only on Pd but on most programs... gnome-terminal eventually starting taking so long to start up the first couple of times that I gave up and started with xterm, for example. Firefox takes a long time as well and I am using that every

Re: [PD] linux - faster load first time

2007-10-04 Thread Andy Farnell
I use fluxbox WM, no hassle, no fancy bollocks. It's just X with some coloured window bars and a program launcher menu. The MS Windows philosophy seriously subverted peoples expectations and understanding of what an Operating System and Desktop are. MS Windows and its imitators are not

Re: [PD] linux - faster load first time

2007-10-04 Thread Kevin McCoy
-- Forwarded message -- From: Kevin McCoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Oct 4, 2007 12:51 PM Subject: Re: [PD] linux - faster load first time To: Andy Farnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] I use fluxbox WM, no hassle, no fancy bollocks. It's just X with some coloured window bars and a program

Re: [PD] linux - faster load first time

2007-10-04 Thread Chris McCormick
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 12:51:32PM -0400, Kevin McCoy wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Kevin McCoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Oct 4, 2007 12:51 PM Subject: Re: [PD] linux - faster load first time To: Andy Farnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] I use fluxbox WM, no hassle, no fancy

Re: [PD] linux - faster load first time

2007-10-04 Thread Andy Farnell
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 00:48:39 -0400 Chris McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS for people who want a nice middle ground between fluxbox's minimalism and gnome/kde's user friendly funcitonality, xfce4 comes highly recommended. It's very light, very fast, and very configurable Yes. Xfce is a

Re: [PD] linux - faster load first time

2007-10-03 Thread Miller Puckette
Hmm, now has anyone noticed that Pd (first time after booting) starts up progressively more slowly over the months you own a linux machine? I'm suspicious that there's a correlation with how much software you have loaded on the machine. Maybe having lots of shared libraries and programs to use

Re: [PD] linux - faster load first time

2007-10-03 Thread Tim Blechmann
one could avoid the dynamic linking by prelinking the binary ... t On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 09:15 -0700, Miller Puckette wrote: Hmm, now has anyone noticed that Pd (first time after booting) starts up progressively more slowly over the months you own a linux machine? I'm suspicious that

Re: [PD] linux - faster load first time

2007-10-03 Thread ild0012
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 09:15:06AM -0700, Miller Puckette wrote: Hmm, now has anyone noticed that Pd (first time after booting) starts up progressively more slowly over the months you own a linux machine? I'm suspicious that there's a correlation with how much software you have loaded on the