(OT) Re: KDE3

[Bob Raymond]

On Wednesday 17 April 2002 10:07 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Bob Raymond wrote:
> > Windows is actually faster on my box than KDE, if I consider application
> > load times.  Comparison:
> >
> > rig is Athlon 1.4ghz, 512mb SDRAM, Radeon 8500 video, 40GB 7200RPM drive
> > for Windows, 13GB 5400RPM drive for Gentoo (I know it's unfair, but my
> > sound card is better supported in Windows, so I need the HD for
> > recording).
> >
> > Windows XP Pro						Gentoo 1.1a, KDE 3.0
> > boots in 30 secs.						boots in 15 secs.
> > Mozilla load time 5 secs.				Mozilla load time 10 secs.
> > Mozilla mail load time 5 secs.			KMail load time 15 secs.
> >
> > All of Gentoo is optimized from source, and all times are sort of
> > approximate. The Windows apps sometimes take less than a second to load. 
> > Of course, Linux doesn't get blue screens just because the processor is
> > at 52-53C like Windows.
>
> I can't comment on KMail, as i don't use it (or any of KDE), however
> something is very wrong with Mozilla on your box if its taking 10s to load
> (on the first try?).  On my PIII-1Ghz w/512MB, mozilla-0.9.9 loads the
> first time in 6 seconds.  This is using the i686 tarball from the mozilla
> ftp site.
>
> I wonder if your usage of KDE is dragging down the performance of the
> entire box?  Do you have any other leaner windowing environments
> available, such as XFCE, where you could retest?

I could, but it's not so much of an issue.  I've learned to wait days for my 
downloads to occur, so I've learned to waith ten seconds for Mozilla to load.  
It varies, as well.  When Windows is doing heavy multitasking (several 
instances of Star Office, music files being played from the HD, etc.), it 
takes 45 secs. to load Mozilla.  I could be compiling KDE in the background 
within KDE and Mozilla would still take the same time to load.  I just loaded 
Mozilla, now, though, in Linux, and it's up to 3 secs.  I guess it really 
does vary.  Now, it's down to two.  All I've got installed are the two 
heavyweights, Gnome and KDE, but partly because on 28.8k dialup, I don't have 
time to be downloading 24/7 (I've got to share it with two other computers, 
and the ISP forbids sharing unless I pay an extra dollar a minute over some 
certain number of hours).

Bob Raymond

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