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Submitted by mborn on Mon, 17/01/2005 - 21:37.
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Peace!

I have a 700MHz box with a 256MB RAM and a 40HDD. Why do I feel like it is very slow? I feel that applications take ages to run and I feel lots of unnecessary processes work in the back ground. I used top to see what is there, but I find it very hard to see which ones should I kill and which should I leave working. Can you help me?

PS. Even for a better box with the latest Processor, I find the problem persistent, why? I have heared rumors about KDE being slow, but I am a lover of this graphical environment. What should I do? and if you use your box mainly for doing programming and compiling things with some net actions and emailing, what would you do?

M B

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Services
YoussefAssad's picture
Submitted by YoussefAssad on Mon, 17/01/2005 - 23:38.

One thing you want to do is tweak what services get run and what services don't. How you do this will depend on your distro, but the basic idea is to only have things run at boot which you are going to need. In other words, if you discover that you have an irc server running at boot because you were playing with packages, then you don't want that, &c.

KDE should be happy with 256 Mb of memory. Still, you could always try a window manager instead of a full-blown desktop environment. I use fluxbox on my laptop; extremely fast.

-- Panem et *burp* circenses


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decent hardware
Pronco's picture
Submitted by Pronco on Tue, 18/01/2005 - 14:37.

KDE is not bloated or even slow but If your running slow hardware, don't expect anything to run other than slow

Certainty P3 700MHz / 256 RAM is not that bad Processor / RAM using KDE but it's truly recommended

What About:

  1. Cash Memory
  2. RAM BUS
  3. kind of Processor
  4. etc..

I used to be indecisive .. but now I'm not so sure


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hardware is fine
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Submitted by Alaa on Tue, 18/01/2005 - 15:48.

regardless of wether KDE is bloated or not (it is) 256MB ram and 700mhz is more than enough to run KDE comfortably.

I have to deal with lots of used computers, latest KDEs begin to be functionable at 64MB, at 128MB they're very comfortable, and if you don't have much eye candy any 686 or later processor is enough.

cheers, Alaa

http://www.manalaa.net "i`m feeling for the 2nd time like alice in wonderland reading el wafd"


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Pronco's picture
Submitted by Pronco on Tue, 18/01/2005 - 16:13.

I said it's truly recommended

I used to be indecisive .. but now I'm not so sure


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