Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (39 mails)

[Phil Driscoll <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On the small (32Mb/200Mhz) machines I am setting up, I would like to be in a 
position to run KOffice programs. Certainly KWord is becoming a well featured 
application, and it runs fine in the small memory environment.

As you may remember, I am using IceWM in order to reduce the memory overhead 
of the window manager. Just starting KDE puts me into 12Mb of swap, wheras 
IceWM leaves me several Mb free/cache.

Now to the problem. Although KWord runs ok it takes ages to get going (40 
seconds) under IceWM, although if I run it under KDE on the same machine, in 
spite of the crazy amount of disk sqapping going on, it actually starts up in 
under 10 seconds. Non-KDE applications, such as AbiWord and Gimp, start up in 
a couple of seconds regardless of WM.

Does anyone know what magic tricks I can perform to effect the speedup under 
IceWM?

Cheers
-- 
Phil Driscoll