[Wolves] What makes Gnome/KDE slow?

[Deusiah]

I just this second tried this on my desktop machine (Athlon 64 3200+)
again great results! The terminal now pops open in an instant :)

Before I did this I timed how long Gnome takes to start up including
all the time the icons take to start not just till the desktop
appears, it took 26 seconds in total. Gnome on top of XFCE takes 11
seconds.

Am I on to something here or is there some major part of Gnome I have
forgotten to start? Performance like this usually only comes at a
price.

Chris

On 5/17/05, Deusiah <deusiah at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes but Gentoo on a 500Mhz laptop? I'd like to be able to use my
> laptop before I'm dead thank you :) I started to compile Gentoo on a
> 1Ghz Desktop, after an hour I gave up am I too assume that everything
> you download via portage is source and you have to compile that too? I
> can't see how it would work otherwise. I want to download software and
> use it, not download software, fix dependencies, wait for it to
> compile and use it, all for the sake of 0.2 seconds off the programs
> load time :P
> 
> The extra performance you speak of I really don't think is that
> noticeable. I used to use a 686 compiled distro that was built for
> performance called Yoper. It was fast but it's not as fast as running
> Gnome on top of XFCE.
> 
> Chris
> 
> On 5/17/05, Ron Wellsted <ron at wellsted.org.uk> wrote:
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> > Stuart Langridge wrote:
> > > On 5/17/05, Deusiah <deusiah at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >>Actually this Openbox window manager does make some difference. It's
> > >>hard to tell sometimes because you can be opening slow programs like
> > >>Firefox or gnome terminal. Perhaps a solution is to use other
> > >>programs?
> > >>
> > >>Replace Nautilus with Rox Filer, Metacity with OpenBox, Gnome Panel
> > >>with PyPanel or fbpanel etc.
> > >
> > >
> > > That'd make it faster, certainly, but it is deeply unclear that a
> > > desktop running fbpanel and the Rox Filer is still Gnome. ;)
> > >
> > > Aq.
> > >
> >
> > Part of the reason for the lack of performance is the in many
> > distributions you are running binaries that have been compiled to run
> > (or crawl!) on a 386, if your lucky they might have been compiled for a
> > Pentium.  Now if you use Gentoo, the binaries are optimised for your
> > hardware (and, Aq, updates can be run overnight. use distcc and they go
> > even faster)
> > :)
> >
> > - --
> > Ron Wellsted
> > http://www.wellsted.org.uk
> > ron at wellsted.org.uk
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