Re: Is it just me, or is E (and gnome) SLOW!

[Havoc Pennington <rhp zirx pair com>]

On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, Devin Butterfield wrote:
> 
> Has anyone noticed this problem?
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions for how to deal with this...how to
> speed things up a little??
> 

Doesn't seem slow here on a P233. There are two special cases of slowness
recently noted: 1) if apps hang on startup they are fooling with esound 
2) if you have an 8-bit display Imlib can take a long time to dither
pixmaps. Both of these are being fixed.

The other way to make it really slow is to use a complicated pixmap
theme; those unavoidably use a lot of RAM and some amount of CPU, so if
your computer runs out of RAM and starts chewing into swap it is going to
get really slow. If you want all the really crazy E/Gnome desktops you
have to buy RAM. Try the default theme and see if it's better.

Havoc