Re: [SLE] 9.2 - KDE and KDE apps very slow - everything else OK

From: Jason Joines (joines_at_bus.okstate.edu)
Date: 12/09/04

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    Stan Glasoe wrote:
    > On Thursday 09 December 2004 12:56 pm, Jason Joines wrote:
    >>Stan Glasoe wrote:
    >>>On Thursday 09 December 2004 11:01 am, Jason Joines wrote:
    >>>> I just got my SuSE 9.2 Pro DVD yesterday and did a fresh install
    >>>>with all the YOU updates on a P4 1.80GHz with 512 MB RAM. I had been
    >>>>running 9.1.
    >>>>
    >>>> The install went smoothly but starting KDE was horrible. It took
    >>>>around 10 minutes.
    >>>>
    >>>>snip <
    >>>>
    >>>>Jason Joines
    >>>I've had to make sure that powersaved was running properly on my system
    >>>to avoid that type of behavior. Also check (via right click, Configure)
    >>>suseplugger in the systray area. I had to make sure that Directly Start
    >>>Application and Start Applications At Login and Do Active Polling were
    >>>all off to get decent system response times.
    >>>
    >>>One thing to try is to reset your YaST time slices and use the 'desktop'
    >>>setting in your grub/lilo boot settings. Without desktop in mine, my
    >>>system crawls. Others on the list report exactly opposite behavior for
    >>>their systems.
    >>>
    >>>As they say YMMV,
    >>>Stan
    >> powersaved is running. What do you mean by running properly? Is there
    >>some configuration that needs to be changed?
    > I managed to get some permissions messed up on powersaved so that it wasn't
    > running and that slowed my system. Not sure what or how i did that but it
    > took awhile to figure it out
    >> I've had suseplugger completely disabled.
    >>
    >> I did set the time slice stuff to 'desktop'. Everything was twice as
    >>slow before that.
    >>
    >> I don't see anything about desktop stuff in the bootloader
    >>configuration. It boots just fine so I don't see how that could matter.
    >> It's just KDE that's misbehaving.
    > Gnome and XFcce4 and Icewm and others behaved well for me too. Providing the
    > following information for the record not to insult your abilities or anything
    > like that.
    > http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2003/10/pohletz_desktop_90.html explains how to
    > change that the "desktop" boot paramter.
    > http://portal.suse.de/sdb/en/2003/10/90_scheduling.html explains why they are
    > doing it and the last paragraph explains the "desktop" boot parameter time
    > slicing. This also explains why uptime gets reset every 47+ days I think it
    > is instead of the 470+ days it used to be.
    >>Jason
    >
    > Can't think of anything else right now. Unless its something like locate or
    > fam churning away in the background. My performance issues seemed to be
    > isolated to KDE also. YMMV of course and my issues may not be yours! Keep us
    > updated on what you find though.
    >
    > Stan
    >

            Thanks for the tip and the links. That was it. I wacked desktop out
    of menu.lst and everything is great now.

    Thanks again,

    Jason Joines
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