Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 14:14:10 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Duane Whitty <duane@greenmeadow.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Paulino Calderon <paulino.calderon@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Improving kde perfomance... Message-ID: <44414602.9040606@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <44413651.8010504@greenmeadow.ca> References: <8dc358df0604151014x1fb2a25dye538797bc4adeea@mail.gmail.com> <44413651.8010504@greenmeadow.ca>
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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. >> >> Thanks for your help. > Are you quite certain that KDE is to blame? If you run flux on this laptop, is everything "normal"? Seems a jump in logic to assume it's KDE if that's all you've ever run on a brand spanking new machine; but, you weren't specific about this. Try another WM and see if the problem evaporate; that should at least give you a starting point to know what to look for..... Kevin Kinsey -- One nice thing about egotists: they don't talk about other people.
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