Speeding up KDE? Any hints?

[D. Michael McIntyre]

On Sunday 15 July 2007, Robert Tilley wrote:
> about 28 MB returned.  After closing several tabs in Konqueror, more came
> back.  Then I quit Konqueror and even more returned.

Konqueror is a real pain for this kind of thing too.  I find when I combine 
multiple tabs with the flash plugin, sometimes I run into a situation where I 
have to go nuke all Konqueror processes to get my system back to a 
comfortable performance level.  I'm sure there's a bug in there somewhere, 
but I'm too lazy to find and report it.

Since I upgraded to Feisty and KDE 3.5.6, all of this is much worse than it 
used to be on Dapper and 3.5.4 or 3.5.5, whatever it was.  This is not a 
coincidence.  I used to run Debian Sid, and after I upgraded that to KDE 
3.5.6 I ran into many of the same issues.  3.5.6 was not a good version of 
KDE.

> P.S.  Have to look into adding another 512 MB to my machine.

It will really help, but it shouldn't be strictly necessary.  I still have a 
512 MB/2.0 GHz box at my house, and it seems to get along fine.  My own is a 
bit faster though, with more RAM, and it gets along better.  RAM seems to 
make a much greater difference than pouring on more gigahertz.  Plus I still 
have old hard drives, instead of SATA.
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D. Michael McIntyre