> > > 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 > > Ouch. That sounds like a painful solution. Just getting FC1 > installed/running from ISOs took a week (long story). Hmmm, ok, this will lead you deep into the rabbit hole. It's much fun, but there is much potential for annoyance as well. If you need a system to use away without much fumbling, FC1 was not a bad idea at all, despite of certain glitches (google is your friend). > > 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. > > Thanks. I can run top, that much I can figure out, but how to interpret a > memory leak is a bit beyond me. Any hints? easy: run top in terminal, press shift+m to sort by mem usage. If things slow down alot and some particular process rises dramatically in mem usage (dramatically is 20-50% or even above - depending on program type, some just need lots - and *keeps* rising tho you don't do anything, chances are there is a mem leak. I could sit here and watch kdeinit happily hit the 90% and climb on a 512MB machine. BTW: somebody else noticed this? Slackware 9.1 here, used 3.2 packages from -current branch. Dex ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.