Guest stefcasti Posted January 10, 2007 Report Share Posted January 10, 2007 I notice this fact: 1st time i installed mandriva 2007 was 10 days ago on a partition, so I had both xp and mandriva. 2 days ago I decided to have only mandriva on my laptop so I install again (using mandriva's DVD formatting sw). After reinstalling everything I noticed (and now is the same) that kde, applications and so on was very slow... slower than the 1st installation and xp! (I have a laptop pentium IV 3200 1 giga ram). It takes time to open sw and even to open menus and menu windows. I can see that my ram (1 giga) is 99% busy (about 60% of this is cache ram), while I use 0% of swap. what can it be? what can I do? stefano Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted January 10, 2007 Report Share Posted January 10, 2007 I think everything is related to the things you noted in your first topic. I would first try to update KDE, maybe create another user (this can be done from the mandrivca control center) and see it problems persist. Another thing to try is in a terminal as root (type su, then ennet your password ): kbuildsycoca --global --noincremental Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stefcasti Posted January 10, 2007 Report Share Posted January 10, 2007 Thank you very much for your message. I use terminal only for a few items... I know only a few basic commands. can you please explain me (so I can learn and remember it) the command kbuildsycoca? k-build-sy... it seems something referred to system or kde! thank you in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted January 10, 2007 Report Share Posted January 10, 2007 It's a kde command I believe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted January 10, 2007 Report Share Posted January 10, 2007 It rebuilds the database for KDE, I believe. Someone on the KDE channel told me. Before when starting apps from the console I would see many warnings or errors and this fixed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mhn Posted January 10, 2007 Report Share Posted January 10, 2007 Whats the output of 'top' if you run that from a konsole, it will show you if some app is using a lot of cpu, and causing the slowdown. Press 'q' to get out of top btw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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