-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 21:14:38 +0530 "A. Mani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday 02 September 2005 16:20, J.Bakshi wrote: > > On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 18:55:42 +0530 > > > > "A. Mani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Friday 26 August 2005 15:38, J.Bakshi wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I like to ask a specific question to KDE users. what is the present > > > > state of KDE ? means does it become more slower and resource hungry or > > > > faster ? you can ask cpu speed, ram , cache etc. etc.... but I like > > > > to know how KDE performs on the PC ( pls mention the config ) you are > > > > using. mine is KDE 3.3 , 128MB DDR, Sempron 1.5GHz, UDMA HDD, 128K L1, > > > > 256K L2. UDMA is activated in the kernel 2.4.17 > > > > KMail needs considerable time to up. also there is a delay to up the > > > > menu. > > > > > > > > thanks > > > > > > It is much faster than before. ...provided you have at least 192 MB of > > > RAM...the processor speed is less relevant... I have seen it (kde3.2) run > > > well on via 550 Mhz with 192 Mb of ram. For your config the ram is the > > > only problem... as it is try to use more spartan settings. > > > > I also try with an additional 256MB so total 256MB+128MB but haven't found > > any speed increment -:( > > > > Odd, which distro are you using ? Debian sarge (testing) Qt: 3.3.3 KDE: 3.3.2 KMail: 1.7.1 UDMA support is active $] hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount = 0 (off) IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq = 1 (on) using_dma = 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 256 (on) geometry = 16383/255/63, sectors = 40060403712, start = 0 here is the transfer rate $]hdparm -t /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffered disk reads: 144 MB in 3.00 seconds = 47.99 MB/sec please tell me what else I can do to increase the speed of KDE and Kmail, as I really miss those technologies. >Did you compile the kde in the wrong way... > in about 10hrs ? Try to search the kde-lists... you might find something. I > do not know about any such arch specific problems. kmail may take about 2sec > to start. For your present config ...it is very possible to compile from > sources. > > Distro specific performance : KDE is usually fastest on slackware. > > > > A. Mani > Member, Cal. Math. Soc > > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDHBsJ14IQxY9uOSYRAv0UAKCGQmZ1MPNn3GIVIB8I83jnKVaLdQCcD4SJ MgiVh7Oh6DEd2FOXHvjMCOA= =NkPI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
