Subject: Re: KDE3 - jsut to make sure
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 04/07/2003 13:27:04
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Hello,

On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 01:09:35PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> is that thing AS SLOW or i configured something wrong?!
>=20
> i tried it on P133 with 192MB RAM, RAM is more than enough but it's
> incredibly slow.
>=20
> especially i can't understand why any KDE app needs 10 seconds to load.
> is it because dynamic loading? or whole KDE is really so bad?

KDE was written by Linux Kidz. They never saw a machine slower than 1 GHz,
and probably think that 1 second startup-Time is ok.

You do the math.

Now - you probably can tweak the balance between cached files and program
memory and data memory using a few sysctl vm.* knobs; see the discussions=
=20
in NetBSD-current as of a few months ago.

Regards,
	Ignatios Souvatzis

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