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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Konqueror startup speed problem(s)
From:       Jelmer Feenstra <spark () dds ! nl>
Date:       2001-05-01 22:00:53
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On Tuesday 01 May 2001 11:11, 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 :). 

In the konqueror settings dialog you can set the "Minimize memory usage" to 4 
different levels, try playing with those. As far as I know this can enable 
you to use one instance for all your open konqueror's and thereby speeding up 
'startup' of a new window.

Jelmer Feenstra
 
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