[TriLUG] Speed Question with RHL 8.0 and KDE3

[Sinner from the Prairy]

On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 08:27, Roy Vestal wrote:
> I have a 233MHz box with 2GB HDD and 96MB of RAM Running RHL 8.0 with
> KDE 3.  Does any one have any suggestions on a way to increase speed on
> the box besides the usual "Get rid of KDE" , "Add RAM", "Get a new box",
> "use this other distro...." montra?


KDE 3 and gcc-3.2 are speeding things up. I felt the difference in my
K6-2-400/256.

Aside from what everybody has said to you:

- Reduce the desktops to one
- turn off antialiasing
- turn off font server and add the font paths to the XFree86 conf file
- try working with hdparm
- try using ext2 (ext3 has a little overhead)
- turn off the Kclipboard, sound server
(artsd),Korganizer/AlarmDaemon...
- do not use backgroud image, just one plain solid colour
- use a simple window decoration
- do not use KDM/GDM/XDM. Boot on runlevel 3 and startx
- Use a big machine and recompile srpms for KDE & XFree for the target
arch of your small computer (i686?)
- Get a big computer and do LTSP

And, nevertheless, $8 for 256MB is a good deal. Or use qvwm. It's *very*
fast. 

http://www.ibilio.org/sinner/dibus/qvwm.png
http://www.ibilio.org/sinner/dibus/qvwm2.png 


Good luck!



Salut,
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