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by Rimmer on Friday 01/Jun/2001, @05:12
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5-6 seconds is an exaggeration. However the time for applications such as KMail and Konqueror to load seems like an eternity to load compared to their Windows equivalent.
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Re: Well
by Matt on Friday 01/Jun/2001, @09:41
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Konqueror never takes more than a second to load on all my machines (from 400MHz to 800MHz).
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Re: Well
by Jos van den Oever on Friday 01/Jun/2001, @10:00
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On my PII 267MHz with 256 Mb Konqueror 2.1.2 takes 7 seconds to load after having just closed it, while running almost no other applications. I'm using SuSE 7.1 with their 2.1.2 rpms.
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Re: Well
by Wilke Havinga on Wednesday 06/Jun/2001, @18:09
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This is strange - I'm running on a Celeron 466 with 128 MB of memory, and it takes at most 1 second to start up, much less if another session is already open. My KMail got several folders and contains about 12000 mails in total. It takes about 3 seconds to start, which is quite long, but I guess it takes some time to load those index-files :-)
So there must be something wrong with your configuration or the RPMs are compiled without any optimization turned on (?)
I still find it strange that the speed differs so much on computers that are quite similar.
Btw. I compiled everything from source...but I understand not everyone wants to do that. Maybe RPM builders should get better instructions, or the makefiles should have faster 'default' settings?
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Re: Well
by Jos van den Oever on Thursday 07/Jun/2001, @06:45
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It might be the X that is trying to load loads of fonts for each application that starts. I wonder how I can speed this up. I don't even have or need anti-aliased fonts.
Just for the fun of it, I'll try an optimized compile myself and report the speed.
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I'm not sure I believe you :)
by Rimmer on Tuesday 05/Jun/2001, @19:27
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Even after loading konqueror a few times I can't get close to 1 second... I'm amazed that konqueror loads the first time in 1 second on your system.
What distribution and kernel are you using? SCSI or IDE hard drive?
Please tell us the secret!
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That's because it's already mostly loaded
by Chris Wong on Friday 08/Jun/2001, @15:38
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That's probably because you already had most of it loaded. If you had enabled HTML viewing in Kmail, for example, khtml would already be loaded. On the other hand, starting up Konq without the khtml stuff loaded (by any KDE app) is much slower.
Chris
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Re: Well
by Jerry Ruhe on Saturday 02/Jun/2001, @15:00
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Hard drive speed tweaks may be the answer. try this:
/sbin/hdparm -c1 -d1 -a1 -m16 -u1 /dev/hda
*note - the hda is the drive on my box... you may have a different device setting ie /dev/hdb or /dev/hdc ect
just a thought
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Re: Well
by Micko on Tuesday 05/Jun/2001, @20:48
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This helped me a LOT! Things start up at half the time now and XMMS has stopped distort sound when I start a new process.
Is there more tuneing that can be done? Was I just lucky that these parameters was right for my HD?
Take a look at the difference in testresults by Bonnie in attached file.
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Re: Speed? And a (good) suggestion for themes
by Trynis on Friday 01/Jun/2001, @08:25
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I recently upgraded from a 180MHz PPro to a 1.1GHz Athlon, and I must say that the startup times for applications don't differ very much. I believe the speed of the harddisk is more important (I still have the old disks from the PPro :-P). I expected much faster startup times.
/trynis
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Re: Speed? And a (good) suggestion for themes
by Christian Lavoie on Friday 01/Jun/2001, @10:14
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This might make your day.
http://upx.sourceforge.net/
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Re: Speed? And a (good) suggestion for themes
by nap on Friday 01/Jun/2001, @10:27
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Hey Christian, I want more commercial grade applications open sourced and ported to Linux, preferably under Qt/KDE. Oh, yeah, and throw in the world peace too. Maybe you have link to something that might make _my_ day?
:)
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Re: Speed? And a (good) suggestion for themes
by Timothy R. Butler on Friday 01/Jun/2001, @15:51
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Do you have Anti-Aliasing installed? With a lot of fonts (like I have) things really slow down. I hear that the next release of XFree86 (4.1) should fix this.
It was suppose to be out mid to late May, so keep an eye out for it! :-)
-Tim
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Re: Speed? And a (good) suggestion for themes
by stoerung on Sunday 03/Jun/2001, @10:59
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4.1.0 is already out
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Re: Speed? And a (good) suggestion for themes
by kevin on Monday 04/Jun/2001, @17:00
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This copied from the xfree86.org site:
XFree86 4.0.3 update release available[16 March 2001]
XFree86 4.0.3 is a bugfix/update release. It is an update that is installed on top of the 4.0.2 release. The next full release will be 4.1.0, scheduled for mid-late May 2001.
Feel free to visit.
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Re: Speed?
by eze on Thursday 07/Jun/2001, @06:53
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About 4 seconds to launch konqueror, used to be faster before I upgraded from kde-2.1.0
I have compiled kde from source.
Use Debian/Testing with XFree-4.0.3
AMDk6II-450 w/ATA66 7200rpm drives and 160 MB RAM
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