Note: - Count the KDE boot time after that it is ready to run Konqueror (e.g. when all system tray icons appeared in SuSE 9.1); before it, the desktop is not usable yet. - Is it really your first tip?! Upgrading the hardware doesn't mean "optimization"!! If so, optimization is an easy task: listing the newest Opteron models! - I'm glad that some developers (like you) hear our complaints. --------------------------------------------------- "Lubos Lunak" (l.lunak@suse.cz) wrote: --------------------------------------------------- "Ultra high speed CPU: AMD K6-2+ at 550 MHz" - hmm, what is an AMD64 Hammer at let's say 1800MHz then :) ? Anyway. At least some of the results in your tests don't look right when comparing the KDE results to the GNOME results. I'd believe KWrite needing double the amount GEdit needs, or even tripple, but 5 times longer seems wrong. The same way KWrite should not need 15 seconds if Konqueror needs only 2 (although this must be preloaded Konqueror instance). I have an old K6/188 available, which should have rougly just a third of the power of your machine, and I run KDE on it from time to time. I don't remember the times exactly, it is certainly sluggish, but at least KDE startup time is definitely less than 80 seconds, the other times may be probably roughly the same, perhaps slower, but I doubt it'd be three times slower than your numbers. Which means there's probably something wrong with the setup. I recently spent some time extensively profiling KDE startup, I'm about to finish updating the KDE performance tips, and I'll publish them shortly. I suggest you check them after they're announced, maybe you'll find the reason for your slowness. And no, performance has not been forgotten. If yes, I wouldn't have done the profiling, and others would have done the various optimizations either. It's generally perceived that KDE performance has been constantly improving with each new release. However working on optimizations is a tedious and time-consuming work, and moreover you cannot expect KDE to run acceptably on very old hardware like my K6 or to match the performance of old software developed for such hardware. PS: Oh, and yes, the very first tip in the tips will be getting a fast machine. That's the most reliable way of getting things to run fast. -- Lubos Lunak KDE developer _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com