[ILUG] slow response from kde apps

[Niall Donegan]

Also make sure your kernel is set up properly. I had a similar problem
with was caused by the fact that I didn't have proper IDE support compiled
in and the harddrive was running using PIO rather than UDMA.
Check your kernel config, and google for hdparm.

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Niall Donegan
doneagain/at/skynet/dot/ie
www.skynet.ie/~doneagain

On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Declan Grady wrote:
> Hi,
> On a Pentium2-400MHz dell laptop with 256MB ram, and a few hundred megs of
> free disk space, I am using debain 3.0, with a 2.4.22 kernel, and kde3.
>
> My apps seem to run quite slowly - things like Kmail, mozilla-firefox, even
> Konqueror takes a while starting up.
>
> I've been living with this, as just having an old laptop, but when I see the
> same laptop running doze98, it flys along by comparison, with
> lookout-express, and the dreaded ms-ie6.
>
> I was running iwth 128 RAM and chnaged to 256 thinking it would help, but
> doesnt seem to have made any difference.
>
> Being a perpetual linux newbie, I dont really know where to start looking for
> things that are slowing it down.
> I dor get an error at kde startup saying "could not start kdeinit" since I
> upgraded to kde3 (using apt-get), but clicking OK lets kde startup as normal
> - I dont suspect this as a cause of slowness.
>
> Any suggestions (apart from the obvious "buy a new laptop") ?
>
> Thanks
> Declan
>