hanes Posted January 9, 2006 Report Share Posted January 9, 2006 Hi, I have used linux for the last couple of years. Mostly mandriva, I love the distro. Anyways, last month or so I have been using XP, simply because I want to play Star Wars Battlefront 2. But anyways here I am using this OS and slowly all of a sudden I am USING it .... and heres what I notice Mandriva ROX in most categories except speed. I can open up explorer, browse to a file and open it WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY faster then I can in KDE. Why? I know there are other visual managers but most of em are not visually apealling enough or are "weird". Anyways have the people on this board noticed this too? Hanes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted January 9, 2006 Report Share Posted January 9, 2006 I don't have any such problems and I use KDE but I'm also a Gentoo user. Mandriva by default has a lot of services running in the background and disabling some of them might help. Also try running top to see if there is something hogging your system resources. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted January 9, 2006 Report Share Posted January 9, 2006 Uninstall kat. It is probably the app that slows everything down. Others had speed-issues due to that one, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonEberger Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 kat sucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solarian Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 i agree, it was the first thing that I uninstalled when testing 2006 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 There are a few things I uninstall, first is kat, then nfs-utils and nfs-utils-clients because when I shut down the machine they error. Plus I'm not using nfs anyway as it's a network file system, and I'm not bothered about that. If your using nfs, then of course don't remove these :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 There are a few things I uninstall, first is kat, then nfs-utils and nfs-utils-clients because when I shut down the machine they error. Plus I'm not using nfs anyway as it's a network file system, and I'm not bothered about that. If your using nfs, then of course don't remove these :P <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Have you got portmapper running? NFS shouldn't make any difference unless it can't disconnect and this would happen if portmapper was failing. If this is the case then by all means uninstall NFS if you are not using it but fixing portmapper should help too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 Do you need portmapper? I wondered if I could disable this service or not, I believe it relates to RPC's etc. Just didn't know if safe to disable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 Do you need portmapper? I wondered if I could disable this service or not, I believe it relates to RPC's etc. Just didn't know if safe to disable. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It is considered more secure to disable but many services use it. NFS needs it but somehow works without (I guess brute force) but is extremly slow to connect. If other protocols are using RPC then I guess they would also add delays and I have found through experience rather than good science that having it working and configured helps lots of those funny problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 I just checked, my gentoo system has it disabled, but then I'm not using NFS or most likely nothing else that requires it either. I'll disable later on Mandriva when I get home, and see if it causes any problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 My default KDE installation is fast as a bullet (no surprise, Arch does not include kat anywhere!), but occasionally crashes at logout. Afterwards I found out that this is caused by libsvg (which is a Gnome/Cairo package!), and which also creates isues with numerous GTK2- based applications. WHY it should crash KDM, while it's not a dependency? I frankly don't know... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hanes Posted January 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 hmmmm.... I find trouble believing you guys :( I love linux, i am very comfy with it. But if you guys telling me it is actually faster than explorer then I am doing something serioulsy wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 My Mandriva 2005 Konqueror is faster than Explorer for file browsing too. Did you try to uninstall kat? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hanes Posted January 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 no... but that will be one of the first things i do when i get home Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 Even with IE preloading like it does, linux is faster. B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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