Hi, Just in case anyone else is having this issue, the patch from the bug in the previous mail I sent was already merged into my Qt source. I decided to recompile Qt and all its dependencies which dramatically improved the performance, although load times are not quite as good as some have reported. I'd say it's dropped from about 45 seconds to 4 seconds, so I'm not complaining. I guess the moral is that with Gentoo, it might be best to skip the precompiled binaries. > Are you using Kernel 2.6 as well? Yes, 2.6.4 Thanks for the suggestions. Brian -- ===== Brian Lee Yung Rowe (President, Chief Architect) Cenozoa Corporation 3 East 28th Street, 9th Floor, New York 10016 646 536 3066 ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.