Features for FC4

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

lør, 13.11.2004 kl. 18.46 skrev Kim Lux:
> Your problem is the 128MB of RAM.  If you watch your swap memory in a
> monitor, you'll find that there is a tremendous amount of swapping going
> on. Upgrading to 512MB of RAM will make a huge difference.  Linux runs
> pretty well on old/slow hardware *as long as it has enough RAM*.
> 

I know this perfectly well. I don't care about that crappy machine - it
is a test box, not a production one. It is used... to test things. And
as print server.

> I'm not an advocate of your preloading request.  On your machine I think
> it would make things worse, because the preloaded apps are just going to
> consume some of your valuable RAM and swap out the rest.
> 

But on those machines who acctually are par with the recomended system
specs, it shouln't be a problem.

> BTW: Another app that got a lot faster is Evolution.  My inbox has
> 11,000 emails in it and they did something to make it work better with
> large inboxes.  
> 

I have something like 10 000 mails in my evo inbox, a lot of vfolders
etc., and it is quite snappy. This is evo 1, not 2.0. Even message body
searches over the whole lot seldom takes more than 10 secs, which is
really acceptable. And this is a 650 mhz, with a slooow disk.

> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 18:17 +0100, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> > lør, 13.11.2004 kl. 17.24 skrev Kim Lux:
> > > On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 17:18 +0100, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> > > 
> > > > - Openoffice shoulnt use 30 secounds to load the dictionaries. (only
> > > > load the default language?)
> > > > 
> > > > Maybee:
> > > > - Preloading of Openoffice and default web browser, to make the system
> > > > respond *imediatly* and open those progs.
> > > 
> > > OO spell checking used to take forever and now it is almost
> > > instantaneous.  Kudos to whomever did that.
> > > 
> > 
> > Agreed. Haven't gotten around to install FC3 on my main computer yet...
> > But the spell checker *still* takes ages to load in FC2. And OO
> > itself... It took five FIVE minutes to start on an 128 MB RAM 500 Mhz
> > computer (fc3).
> > 
> > So preloading firefox and OO when you start gnome, would be a big win.
> > It would make the computer *seem* a lot faster/responsive. And that is
> > really what counts for most desktop users.
> > 
> > > OO is getting faster all the time, in my opinion.  In RH8 it was pretty
> > > slow. 
> > > 
> > > BTW: I just love OO.  I use it every day. 
> > > 
> > 
> > Me to. Had to use Word 2003 on friday, and it is lightyears behind OO
> > when it comes to styles/object placement :)
> > 
> > 
> -- 
> Kim Lux (Mr.)  Diesel Research Inc