Speedproblems since update 7.04 -> 7.10

[Jan Torben Heuer]

Jan Michelsburg wrote:

> a friend of mine has to problem that his old Toshiba Tecra 8100 (600Mhz
> Pentium III (Coppermine), 256MB RAM, savage IX/MX) became unbearable slow
> since he updateted his Kubuntu. Now for example it takes almost 30 minutes
> for him to fetch his mail. Has someone experienced the same problems and
> found a solution?

If a slow gui is the problem, uninstalling xgl will help. It ate almost 90%
of my cpu.

Jan