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KDE 3.2 Dead slow on Debian
I am using KDE 3.2 on my Debian Woody here. I used the apt way of installing KDE using KDE mirrors. I use xfree86 4.1. I use alsa for my soundcard and the nvidia binary for my vidcard. I am connected to the net via a router and am in a network. I've got some iconthemes installed (crystalSVG, gorillaSVG and radi8 etc). Background is just plain color.
KDE 3.2 starts out nice and fast when you install it. However after using it for a short while it becomes really really slow. Kwrite takes like 15 seconds to popup and so does the Konsole. I know these apps to be popping up in milliseconds in normal situations. Starting up KDE takes minutes, it used to be 30 secs. I am getting a nice grey screen that takes forever and after that the splash. I fixed that "Could not initialize kdeinit ..." thing by editing a file (was a simple case of one return).
What I see in top is that KDEINIT takes like 100% CPU if I start an app that is related to KDE. If I start up FireFox for instance it only takes 4 secs on my system.
What I tried sofar is to edit my /etc/hosts (but it already was fine, just 2 lines: 127.0.0.1 localhost and 192.168.1.2 mycomputername), I tried killing processes to see whether one process was holding things down (kicker for instance). I tried changing icon themes. Nothing helped.
I don't know what to do anymore. It's really ruining my otherwise lovely linux experience. Is there anyone that could help me out?
same problem here. i used unofficial debs from repositories i found on apt-get.org and it was fast. after upgrading to official unstable it became very slow. i realize that my computer isn't fast /it's duron 850 mhz/ but it worked smoothly. that was the reason why i switched to kde from gnome. and i really started wondering about switching back.
Original von suseu
same problem here.
Yes, I think I'm seeing this, too. I just installed it on a fresh Debian box without really using it yet, but startup of KDE took ages.
Original von suseu
and i really started wondering about switching back.
I wouldn't. I guess this kind of problem can be solved... it's really fast on my Gentoo machine... have you reported this to the package maintainer?
end of alert! it's not kde problem.
i noticed that something's wrong with swap, all this slowdown was because of kswapd taking too much cpu. i checked my system and found that i have no swap at all! i checked fstab, partition table and it appeared that partitions numbers changed. why? because i re-installed windows xp /i need it for recording music on my net md/ on my laptop...
so now i'm back with fast kde
great!
Original von cmbofh
Original von suseu
same problem here.
Yes, I think I'm seeing this, too. I just installed it on a fresh Debian box without really using it yet, but startup of KDE took ages.
In my case it turned out to be a problem with the XF86Config-4.
The one generated by debian was unusable (speedwise).
I booted Knoppix and copied the created XF86Config-4 over.
Now everything runs at normal speed. :-)
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Original von suseu
Sunday, April 28th 2024, 3:04pm
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