On Thu, 16 May 2002, Lubos Lunak wrote:
>  In case others can confirm that this change helps, the right thing should be
> changing the way how apps are started during KDE startup (that's in klauncher
> and ksmserver I think). Right now, after quickly checking the sources, it
> seems to me that both ksmserver and klauncher during KDE startup simply fire
> up all the applications almost in a row, without any delay, which means all
> the apps start at the same time (which is maybe wrong?).

Well, at least that's a sure way to eat the CPU alive. Also, on tight
memory all apps would be fighting about who's in swap and who's in memory.
With less active apps I bet the memory manager and scheduler can do a
better job, hence making the startup faster.

At least, that's how I see it.

Martijn