Yes.. Linux loves as much memeroy as you can throw at it.. I went from 64Megs to 512Megs and their was a night and day difference. KDE alone is a huge resource hog. Add anything else and you'll be using your swap to its full potential and this is where things get really slow. Adding more memory is worth the cost. You will see..trust what the list is telling you here.
JBanks --- Christian Herzyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stroller wrote: > > > > > On 11 Oct 2003, at 9:58 pm, Jerry McBride wrote: > > > >> On Saturday 11 October 2003 05:28 pm, SMS WebMaster wrote: > >> > >>> Hi > >>> > >>> Eveytime I hear about prelink I hear about KDE > >>> > >>> Does this mean prelink will not work with GNOME ? > >>> > >>> > >>> I am a GNOME user and I think I will try to prelinking my system > >>> but I am afraid it will break my system > >> > >> > >> There used to be tremendous performance gains by running prelink > >> across ones > >> KDE installation... but since KDE 3.1.x... the programming efforts of > >> the KDE > >> team really shines and prelinking isn't all that necessary any more. > > > > > > Gaaa! I just emerged KDE 3.1.4 the other day & it's sill slow as sin > > on my little PII 400 laptop with only 64meg..! > > I'd really like it to be faster, as it's my favorite Linux environment > > - none of the screenshots I've seen of lightweight WMs appeal to me. > > > > I'm recompiling glibc with prelinking support at the moment - I think > > I'm then likely to have to recompile all my libraries before prelink > > will work. Is it worth the effort..? I think I've got to try, now I've > > started. > > > > Stroller. > > > What do you expect form your machine? The CPU is by now quite old, but > should be able to manage KDE quite fine though. > The problem is your RAM. With 64MB your RAM will probably be filled with > the usual linux stuff and KDE. I guess even without starting anything > else your laptop will have to start swapping things out. > I tried to run Knoppix (OK I know it need more RAM) on a PC quite > similar to your setup and it was REALLY slow (around 5 minutes startup time) > Adding 128MB of RAM helped a lot though. I recommend you do the same if > you want to continue using KDE. > > Christian > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
