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List:       redhat-list
Subject:    Re: KDE Performance
From:       Joseph A Nagy Jr <joseph_a_nagy_jr () charter ! net>
Date:       2003-05-15 5:11:07
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Fred Whipple wrote:
>>I'm running RedHat 9.0 with the included version of KDE on a P-II 300
>>with 190 MB of RAM.

I have RH7.2 with only 128MB of RAM on a P-II w/MMX @ 300MHz (oc'd), I 
also use this box as my server.

>>
>>I haven't been able to improve KDE's performance compared to 
>>other distros.
> 
> 
> Remember, KDE is a Desktop Environment, not a Linux Distribution.  That
> aside ;-)
> 
> 
>>For my system, simply turning it on and logging into KDE comsumes over
>>160 MB of RAM--and that's with the minimal number of services running 
>>(no Apache, MySQL, etc.).
>>
>>Can anyone offer suggestions for improving its performance?
> 
> 
> Unfortunately NO, but I can offer sympothy.  I had been running KDE for
> years and it's just gotten slower and slower and bigger and bigger.  It's
> far, far more advanced IMHO than the other desktop environments, but I
> actually stopped running it because of its huge resource requirements and
> extremely slow performance relative to, say, (gulp) Windows on the same
> hardware.  Ultimately I ended-up running Gnome for no other reason than it's
> a complete desktop environment with a reasonably snappy interface.  I run
> Gnome primarily on a P-II 400MHz notebook with 256MB of RAM.
> 
> I guess my point is, if I can find one at this late hour :-) that I
> personally gave up on performance tuning KDE and just switched instead; I
> don't think KDE can be any less resource intensive than it seems to be.  The
> interface and widgets are excellently planned and compose a great UI but
> they're so layered in so many libraries and layers of objects, the end
> result is sluggish and hoggish :-/
> 
> 	-Fred
> 
> 

I've never had problems with KDE being sluggish (especially KDE3 for the 
short time I was able to run it under Debian and the short time I used 
RH8.0). I find it odd that it's so slow for you on a better equiped (RAM 
wise) machine. I also don't have a very large SWAP (only about 256MB). I 
do agree though that KDE is definitly a great DE. I just wish it used 
GTK+ instead of Qt. ;)


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