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Subject: Re: Improving kde perfomance...
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On Saturday 15 April 2006 10:14, Paulino Calderon wrote:
> Hey folks, Ive been googling about howto improve kde perfomance, i ve always
> used fluxbox as my wm but recently I got a new laptop, it has a 3.2 ghz
> processor, 1 gb of ram, and an ati mobility radeon x600 wiith 256 mb of
> video meomry so I decided to try kde but so far the perfomance has benn
> really poor, cpu usage is always between 20-25% eventhough im not doing
> anything, most apps takes between 5 and 10 seconds to start, and even the
> mouse pointer feels like it gets stuck when i move it too fast, is this as
> fast as it gets for kde? or do you guys think there is osmething wrong with
> my installation? I instaleld it via ports by the way.
> 

I think you might have other issues.  That should be plenty of power for KDE.