To start, it's great that you've given up on Windows. Almost anything productive can be done without it. At least, that's what I've seen, over the past four years.cool .. I've almost totally linux for like 2 weeks now, I think :P
Blackbox usually is very fast (it was for me, even when my master HD was only getting throughput of 400*KB*/sec). That doesn't mean that the apps will load fast, though. That's something totally separate. It's a fun concoction of disk speed, bus speed, memory speed, code size and processor time devoted to loading.well .. I'm hoping somehow knowledge and will can be traded for not affording new hardware right now :P
I really wouldn't blame the OS totally, but instead on the fact that KDE apps and anything from the Mozilla project are severely bloated. And they're not about to try and improve that, because it's easier for you throw hardware resources at it (but that's not a unique mindset, anyway).no, one of the things thta lead me to choose blackbox over other WMs was that I so loved being logged in within 3 seconds of typing the password :P
The question is, from when your X session starts, how long does it take Blackbox to appear? If that even takes a while, then there could be some real hardware issues.
First of all, your applications (unless you manually fiddled with the compilation options) are not optimised for any sort of speed (as specific to your processor). Second, if you are using lots of KDE apps, running in KDE could very well speed up your system. There are a lot of KDE libraries, and most of them are not small.would there be a way of having those libraries stay in memory even in blackbox? I would consider that if it sped up time :P
Jamin W. Collins wrote:
thanks. yes, it seems it's enabled.Do you have DMA enabled for your HD? If you are using an IDE drive and it's configured as primary on the first controller, you can check it with the following command as root:
hdparm /dev/hda
same question: any way to get some the the often loaded kde libs remain resident/load so the run would be faster or something? would it be worth it, do you think?If you use mainly KDE applications, you may see a bit of an improvement as far as launch times. However the general indications you've provided above seem to indicate a larger configuration problem (perhaps DMA like I indicated above).
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