Re: Tuning of KDE 3 on 200 MHz Pentiums with 64-96 Mb RAM

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Oddi: pall bjornsson wrote:
> Hi !
>  
> I've installed RedHat 7.3 on 5 boxes 200 MHz Pentiums with 64-96 Meg RAM 
> which will primarily be used for browsing with Konqueror.
>  
> Running Konqueror on those boxes is REALLY slow, even after Konqueror 
> has been loaded and you are just switching between pages in the browser, 
> it's really slow.
>  
> So, my question is: Where do I start tuning KDE/X so these machines 
> become usable for browsing purposes?

You need more memory.  I highly recommend you DON'T run graphical
Linux (X Windows) with less than 128MB of RAM.  And a 200MHz Pentium
is a little underpowered for it, too.  X is a RAM and processor hog.
Either upgrade the RAM or stop using X.  You really can't "tune" it.
Sorry.
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