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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Konqueror startup speed problem(s)
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2001-05-01 18:53:58
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On Tuesday 01 May 2001 10:11, Cristi wrote:
> 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 :)
Well, on such a machine you won't have a compilation running at the same time :-)

>  PS. I have a 600 Mhz Athlon, 128 SDRAM-PC133, Abit KA7, Quantum Fireball 
> (5400 rpm) + UDMA66, ResierFS, KDE from CVS

Do you compile with --disable-debug ? It makes a huge difference.

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David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
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