Mike Noble wrote:
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W.Kenworthy wrote:
| Rather than looking at kde/gnome, you might get better results by
| changing the xserver priority. There were some threads on the forums in
| the past on this with good results. Some have also reported that
| compiling xfree (and xorg) with -Os can make a big difference to x/x
| apps, but I suspect that it would only help startup, and be very
| detrimental to continuous processing such as movie playback.
|
| You mention snappier menus etc - this is indicative that you do not have
| enough resources to go around - if you up the priority for these
| actions, what is going to happen to your playback? Moving to Kernel 2.6
| with the appropriate scheduler may help here if you are still using 2.4.
| - 2.4 is ultimately "faster" in terms of work processed, but 2.6 is much
| more responsive to desktop actions.
|
| As a gnome user, I would also like to add to the other reply you got
| from a kde user. gnome/kde are both resource hogs, and on older HW you
| *WILL* need to go to a lighter window manager to get decent performance.
| I have used fluxbox successfully where gnome wouldnt cut it in the past
| - this not to put down my favourite window environment, but an
| acknowledgement that all that niceness comes at a (sometimes
| prohibitive) price.
|
Another option which might give a better performance would be to prelink KDE. Information on prelink can be found at:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/prelink-howto.xml
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Thank you very much guys! I will try that prelink thing and research the xserver priority. Thanks again! Ian
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