Ohh, just thought of something. What QT verison does FC ship with. Search the kde-linux archive for my name over the last could weeks I found a way to check the version (I can't get to the archives here at the office they are blocked for some stupid reason). See if a kded process is burning up a lot of CPU time, it may be the pre Qt3.2.3 bug. Eugene ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Dexter Filmore <Dexter.Filmore@xxxxxx> Reply-To: kde@xxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 20:59:09 +0100 >> It's frustrating when I occasionally boot back to Win2k and see how "snappy" >> >> my system responds compared to what I'm forced to deal with on a regular >> basis with FC1 + KDE. I'll buy a new computer, if that is what it will take, >> >> but please tell me that there is *some* way to make a KDE desktop behave the >> >> way a computer *should* in the 21st century! :-) > >Why don't you try a 21st century computer?: PIII500=joke. Get something with >dual channel DDR RAM interface like nForce2 or i865 and a CPU with lotsa L2 >cache, not Celery or Duron (which are jokes, too), this speeds up >significantly. > >If that's not your way of conquering problem, switch distros. Gentoo for >example, compile everything with -O3 -march=i686 (might take a year with >PIII500). >Or Slackware. >Or if you want to stay with FC1, try at least recompiling kernel (custom, no >funny mumbo jumbo like experimental FireWire support and AppleTalk ;) ), X and >KDE with said optimizations. >Try disabling as many services you don't need. >If you have two drives: move swap to the one where Linux does *not* sit on so >the OS can do what the OS has to do and swapping doesn't get in its way. >If you are running KDE3.2, check for mem leaks with top. I had some serious >trouble there which made me go back to 3.1.5 for the moment. > >That's what comes to my mind so far. > >Dex >___________________________________________________ >. >Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. >Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. >More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. > ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the HostPortal WebMail system at ninefamily.com ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.