[TriLUG] Speed Question with RHL 8.0 and KDE3

[Roy Vestal]

Thanks to all that helped out on this, but due to some "oops'" that I 
did to this "new" laptop, I've reloaded it with just the basics and 
XFree86 from the RedHat Linux 8.0 distro. I now have it working with 
Fluxbox, and ACIDLaunch over XFree 4, wireless and wired network, as 
well as some other "tweaks".

I have the distro down to about 1GB total, yup, 1GB with all that I've 
added. The RH only stuff is about 890MB.

Now to check the errata.
<grin!>


Sinner from the Prairy wrote:
> 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,
> Sinner