Speeding up KDE -- More Help Needed

[Scott (angrykeyboarder)]

Robert Tilley spake thusly on 197438912 ::
> Many of the tips on cleaning up memory were extremely helpful.
> 
> My Dell Dimension 2350 box has 512 MB.  KDE 3.5.6, KInfoCenter shows about 
> 6.24 megs free at the moment.  Open apps are:  Konsole (1 tab), a dozen 
> Knotes, KInfoCenter (of course), Kate (14 files open), Konqueror (10 tabs), 
> Firefox (4 tabs open).
> 
> Closing Konqueror immediately freed about 45 MB.  Running Konqueror is almost 
> required for validation of web page design.
> 
> It's been mentioned that KDE 3.5.6 is worse for memory handling.  Perhaps I 
> should downgrade to Dapper?  My first choice would be to avoid buying another 
> half-meg memory.
> 
> Any ideas?


Personalty, I'd vote for more RAM or Xubuntu.

As has been pointed out, you could also try another distro with KDE and
see if that speeds things up.

On a related note (I doubt this would make any difference) but you could
also try removing all the Kubuntu customization0ons and go with vanilla
KDE. I don't know that this would make any difference, but it's worth a
shot.

One reason I mention that is because that's what I do myself. But I do
it because I don't care for what Kubuntu does to KDE.

And there are plenty of distros out there with KDE that aren't as "high
maintenance" as Slack. I've (recently) used Fedora 7, Debian Lenny,
OpenSUSE and Mandriva 2007. I can't vouch for one over the other speed
wise though.



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            Scott
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©2007 angrykeyboarder™ & Elmer Fudd. All Wites Wesewved

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