-----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 > > > 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 that > > X takes at least 16M to itself that does not leave much for KDE to use. > > > > My daughter is running KDE2.1 on a 166PentiumMMX with 64M and get > > 'useable' performance from it. I would not even like to try running KDE > > in less than 64M. > > I would rather say that the bottleneck is the software :-) . I remember > having konqueror, kmail, pan (gnome stuff), kword, then some instant > messaging clients and a ton of Eterms open. Now I can bring the box to it's > knees with just kmail alone.
Basically, something's wrong. This should not be happening. KDE3 *is* leaner than KDE2, with (iirc) only a couple exceptions, having to do with fonts (aa, true-type, something like that). Maybe try playing around with that (en/dis-abling AA, not using tt, etc). Good luck! - -- A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in. --Kim Alm, a.s.r -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9RUT5EHLN/FXAbC0RAssmAJ9TdBhkcbMMVSpSdSzSZkK7MjrRBACgoRvQ 5qZg7xmNUoJ7yDhaPKahND8= =Ckhp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
