Gnome very slow

["Hoyt Bailey" <hoyt13 wiredok com>]

I am having difficulties with gnom.  There is excessive delay between
clicking on an item and any response.  This delay is from 30 sec to 1
minute.  I am running Mankrake 9.2 on a athlon 2100+ XP w/512M mem running @
1.7G on a gigabyte KT400 mobo. The kernel is 2.4.22.   This is unacceptable.
KDE runs at a much faster rate and top, on the gnome desktop, with nothing
going on cycles from 1 to 3 processess running,  approx 88 sleeping.  I dont
have a clue.  Since this isnt normal I came to the experts.  HELP?

Regards;
Hoyt