Tim Shann wrote:
>
> I have definatley noticed a difference after recompiling a new kernel. After a
> fresh install of suse 6.0 (2.0.36), KDE wants to die. And mouse movements are
> kind of jerky. Compiling 2.2.3 makes a huge difference. No waiting and the mouse
> is just fine.
That's interesting.... I was running SuSE 5.3 and did the default
upgrade to SuSE 6.0. The first thing I had to do was slow down my mouse
because the default acceleration level was too high. Neither distro
ever gave jerky mouse movements. KDE has never died on me. Yesterday
Netscape 4.5 locked my mouse up and the menu hotkeys were not
functional, but I was able to open up another console and kill
Netscape... That was the first time Netscape 4.5 locked up... It not
have been locked but my system responds so quickly, even for a P166 65MB
RAM, that I got bored waiting for it to do what ever it was trying to do
and recaptured control...
BTW, my uptime is 17 days, 13 hrs since I last shut down, and that
shutdown was after a lightning strike close by suggested prudence.
Prior to that it had been up since my upgrade to 6.0 in February.
Compare that to my PC at work where a program VFP 6, a P266 128MB RAM
workstation. Yesterday it crashed four time. Typically, 1 to 3 times a
day. About 80% of the time it is due to VFP. The CEO visited me
yesterday to talk about possible development systems to replace VFP.
The conversion spread to Linux, and for the first time he suggested that
the move to Linux for all 300+ workstations and 30+ servers was
inevitable. The tide is rolling folks!
JLK
>
> I'm using the kde version that came on the suse disks. I'm also on a scsi hdd.
> 96mb sdram. I have a 430 tx m.b. which can't cache more than 64mb. I did not try
> to recompile 2.0.36 but that would probably also help.
>
> Tim
>
> Jerry Lynn Kreps wrote:
>
> > Kester Clegg wrote:
> > >
> > > KDE *is* incredibly slow no matter what you do! But have you got the newer
> > > kernals (ie. > 2.0.36)?
> > > k.
> >
> > It seems that "mileage may vary". I find KDE to operate very nicely,
> > overall. The *only* example I've found of slower performance is the
> > rescroll event in the kfm after a file is deleted.
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