praedor wrote: > I checked it. I also looked at the memory information in the KDE control > center. Both free and control center show all my ram is recognized. What's > more, practically NONE of my swap space is used. There is absolutely no > shortage of memory, real or due to it not being recognized, on my system. > > This absolutely was not a problem under Mandrake 7.1. I DID install 7.1 on a > Celeron 400 system, then some months later I took out the motherboard and put > in my present Athlon motherboard. I hooked up all the harddrives and booted > right up without problems AND there was no problem with speed. Apps started > up as fast as they should and as fast as I was expecting them to. > > It appears that no matter what app, no matter how small it is, it takes no > less than 25 seconds from the time I start it by either clicking on its icon > or enter its command name in an xterm. Kmail, console, xterm, control > center, konqueror, etc, etc. Something is blocking app startup. > > I changed harddrive parms with hdparm to optimal for my drives. No change. > > praedor > > On Friday 08 December 2000 04:18 pm, you wrote: > > > > Try checking if all your memory was recognized ->#free > > If that shows 64000 total, then you need to put an append line into lilo > > (append="mem=256M") . I put this line just after the timeout line, then > > re-run lilo. > > > > Ron > > > > --- Chris Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On December 8, 2000 12:20 pm, you wrote: > > > > After cleanly installing Mandrake 7.2 on my desktop system, a > > > > fast Athlon 700 with lots of RAM (it was fast under pre-7.2 > > > > installs and after a manual upgrade to 90%+ Mandrake 7.2), > > > > everything is SOOOOOO SLOOOOOW. > > -- > Against stupidity, even the gods futiliy contend > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. Praedor - since you've recently been working thru sound issues why don't you test your system with all system sounds turned off both at the KDE/Gnome & wm levels to possibly eliminate that as an issue. You might even need to stop sound processes. I know this sounds like a long shot but easy to try. Also, is this the same system that you're trying to get 3D modeling software to run? Have you done anything non-standard beside compile QT2 with opengl? And since you're then also using KDE, is there the same slow-down under Gnome? How about a simple manager like ICE? In fact, you can boot into ICE, test your non-KDE apps, then start ICE with KDE support, ie Kpanel & K's file manager & then again test with KDE apps under ICE.
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