What kind of computer do you have?
My Pentium III 800 with Mandrake 8 don't runs, fly; xterm 1 second, kwrite
1.5 seconds, Konkeror 3 seconds to run. CPU now, with kde, kmail runing, a
terminal, kap runing, 5% used!!!!
Perhaps an old Pentium 166 or a bad installatiob?
El S�b 26 May 2001 17:15, escribiste:
> A note for those who, like me, found Mandrake 8.0
> and KDE just too slow to be usable.
>
> Today I loaded RedHat 7.1 (Seawolf), and things are fast enough.
> i.e. an xterm comes up in < 2 seconds, kwrite in < 3., and
> Konqueror in < 7. Compare these to 15 - 45 second times
> I was experiencing with Mandrake.
>
> Also, I notice that I now have about 95% CPU idle, while
> with Mandrake 8.0, the figure was down around 5%.
> (With kapm-idled taking up 95%)
>
> Using RedHat, kapm-idled is still there, but uses close to 0%
> all the time.
>
> Regards,
> Irv
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University of Murcia
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