Timothy Bolz wrote:
> when my kdesktop starts it takes a minute or two before the icons
> come up. The directory has a lot of stuff in it would this cause it
> to slow down. I run top in a terminal window (which normally opens
> automatically up before the icons) it says kfm is running at 99 % of
> the cpu time. I haven't a clue about this. I thought someone else
> might be experiecing the same problem.
How much RAM do you have? My wife and I have several PCs with KDE
and: 32, 64, 128, 192 and 256 Mb. Logging in is pretty quick on all the
machines w/ 128 Mb or more. You have time to go to the kitchen and
microwave lunch while logging into the 32 Mb machine, and time to
wonder whether the 64 Mb machine has hung. (Sorry, I don't have
precise timings -- I didn't know there would be a quiz.) Right now,
I'm sitting at the 192 Mb machine right now, and top shows:
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
947 root 2 0 68200 65M 1740 S 0 1.2 34.5 162:02 X
18133 kbob 0 0 60460 49M 3208 S 0 0.0 26.4 3:06 kfm
25586 kbob 0 0 21712 21M 4004 S 0 0.0 11.2 5:25 kfm
18962 kbob 0 0 16244 6820 2376 S 0 0.0 3.5 1:19 emacs
30502 kbob 0 0 3808 3808 2176 S 0 0.0 1.9 0:00 emacs
The RSS (Resident Set Size) columnn is the interesting part. (That
two kfms are running is weird, too...) X server + the larger kfm are
using 114 Mb. (Gee, how did we ever run desktops on 4 Mb machines???)
The desktop icons shouldn't matter significantly, unless you have
hundreds of them.
> I normally use kmail. The problem I'm having is that annoying popup
> window which tells me it's downloading the mail. I haven't found a
> way either to turn it off or have it hidden while it does it's
> thing. It seems like it's every minute. I would like to tell it to
> check every x minutes and don't show me the frigin window. I hope
> they fix these two minor problems in the new KDE 2.0
I predict that KDE 2.0 will have a huge set of half-baked applications
and features, and will be at least as bug-ridden as the current
release. Fine-tuning an interface for usability isn't what the KDE
folks do.
It'll probably use more RAM, too. (-:
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