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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Konqueror startup speed problem(s)
From:       Cullmann Christoph <crossfire () babylon2k ! de>
Date:       2001-05-01 16:42:50
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Am Dienstag,  1. Mai 2001 11:11 schrieb Cristi:
> 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, 
Linux disc cacheing rules (even windows in a vmware under linux has a better 
disc performance than windows native :)

cu
Christoph

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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