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

[Ronald de Man <deman win tue nl>]

On Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 12:12:02PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.

Maybe it depends on the definition of slowness. But in my experience
moving around windows in E is very sluggish. That's on a P233 as well.
On equivalent computers running Windows 95, moving around windows is
much smoother. For a while I thought it must be X. But a few weeks ago
I was helping out a friend on a P75 running fvwm2 (stock RH 4.2)
and it was incredibly smooth.

I'm using icewm at the moment. It's quite a bit faster than E, but
still more sluggish than fvwm2 on a P75.

I must add that these are just my impressions, and not scientific
observations.

> 
> 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.
> 

Using default themes with 128 MB.

Ronald