On Thursday 17 May 2001 10:34, Paul wrote:
> It was Thu, 17 May 2001 11:53:35 -0500 when Chubby Vic wrote:
>
> Perhaps time to look for another window manager?
> Paul
>
> >Dang, they must be a bunch of mean old buttfaces
> >who don't want to help anyone,
> >why did they do that?
> >
> >On Thursday 17 May 2001 11:11 am, so spoke Irv Mullins:
> >> I had the same problem, KDE was so slow that I couldn't get any work
> >> done. When I posted this to the KDE list, all I got was flames, but
> >> about half of the people on the ALE list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) who tried KDE 2
> >> reported similar problems.
> >>
> >> Some people with 750 mhz machines even reported slowness, so it seems to
> >> be not directly related to hardware. My only choice was to go back to
> >> 7.2.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Irv
>
Ummm, I don't think so. I have a Celeron 366 running KDE under 8.0 very fast.
I believe the fault may lie with the hdd and how it is set up under 8.0. I
have been noting the phenomenon that some disks which claim to be Ultra-66 or
100 often run faster, up to 5 times faster, at UltraDMA33. Obviously channel
noise and retransmissions are a large source of this problem, but the default
2.4 kernel does attempt to drive disks at their rated speed.
I am working on an optimizer program for hdds which should improve this
performance, or at least find settings where hard drives work with peak noise
immunity and near peak throughput. It should be ready soon.
The Celeron 366 is running a mxtor Udma-66 at 31.89 Mb/s tested speed.
Civileme
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