[TriLUG] Speed Question with RHL 8.0 and KDE3

[Roy Vestal]

Sinner from the Prairy wrote:
 > On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 08:27, Roy Vestal wrote:
 >
 >>I have a 233MHz box with 2GB HDD and 96MB of RAM Running RHL 8.0 with
 >>KDE 3.  Does any one have any suggestions on a way to increase speed on
 >>the box besides the usual "Get rid of KDE" , "Add RAM", "Get a new box",
 >>"use this other distro...." montra?
 >
 >
 >
 > KDE 3 and gcc-3.2 are speeding things up. I felt the difference in my
 > K6-2-400/256.
 >
 > Aside from what everybody has said to you:
 >
 > - Reduce the desktops to one
 > - turn off antialiasing
 > - turn off font server and add the font paths to the XFree86 conf file
 > - try working with hdparm
 > - try using ext2 (ext3 has a little overhead)
 > - turn off the Kclipboard, sound server
 > (artsd),Korganizer/AlarmDaemon...
 > - do not use backgroud image, just one plain solid colour
 > - use a simple window decoration
 > - do not use KDM/GDM/XDM. Boot on runlevel 3 and startx
 > - Use a big machine and recompile srpms for KDE & XFree for the target
 > arch of your small computer (i686?)
 > - Get a big computer and do LTSP
 >
 > And, nevertheless, $8 for 256MB is a good deal. Or use qvwm. It's *very*
 > fast.
 >
 > http://www.ibilio.org/sinner/dibus/qvwm.png
 > http://www.ibilio.org/sinner/dibus/qvwm2.png
 >
 >
 > Good luck!
 >
 >
 >
 > Salut,
 > Sinner

Thanks Josep