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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Konqueror startup speed problem(s)
From:       Cristi <h3x0r () xnet ! ro>
Date:       2001-05-01 9:11:07
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	Hi.. 
   First of all I want to thank evey Konqueror developer out there for
doing such a impressive job. I think there is one thing that remains 
unsolved so far : the speed that a konqueror (with filemanagement 
profile)shows up. After a clean reboot konqueror startsup in 3 seconds. If I 
have some compilation going on, it starts in about 6 seconds. IMHO that's a 
bit too much, even It's still better than Nautilus , but it's certainly worse 
that Windows Explorer.
  One of the things I hear is that Windows Explorer is loading all the
libraries on startup, and that's a bad thing for many users. But shouldn't
you ask somehow the users if they want such a thing ? I personally wouldn't 
mind. I have many Windows users playing around with my Linux box and all of 
them were complaining with the speed of startup. Maybe it's because poor 
Linux cacheing, maybe I have little memory, maybe the icons should be kept in 
memory , I don't know.. but that still remains a issue for me. Maybe someone 
could tell me how to prevent Linux from releasing the memory used by 
Konqueror or something :). I don't espect for Konqui to startup as fast as 
Microsoft Explorer due to a more complex technology, but still, I think that 
some optimisations could be made. What do you say ?
  I'm sorry for such a long message, but I want to open a internet cafe with 
30 computers (K6-2) running Linux and KDE 2.2 and I'm not sure that KDE can 
compete with Windows98 in terms of speed on low-end computers. Any feedback 
would be greatly apreciated :)
 PS. I have a 600 Mhz Athlon, 128 SDRAM-PC133, Abit KA7, Quantum Fireball 
(5400 rpm) + UDMA66, ResierFS, KDE from CVS, Redhat 7.0 with glibc 2.2.2 and 
gcc 2.96-79, linux 2.4.4, NVidia + AA Fonts.

 
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