Re: [Sheflug] Memory issues

[Steve Tickle <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 17:32 02/08/02 +0100, Craig Andrews wrote:

>One of the more obvious things is KDE3. Try ensuring that it is running a
>minimum of extraneous effects (fading things, animated dropdowns, things like
>that).

Your thoughts echo mine. Trouble is... I've seen a config screen somewhere 
which lets you set the amount of animation complexity but can I find it 
again now?... can I heck.

>Secondly, check what your distro starts at bootup. I know SuSE starts Apache
>at boot if you use the help system, along with things like PCMCIA daemons on
>desktop machines, and the like. In short, anything you aren't using and know
>you don't need.

If the various daemons such as PCMCIA and ISDN don't find the appropriate 
hardware, don't they unload from memory though?

>Oh, one last thing. There is an addon for OpenOffice at
>
>http://segfaultskde.berlios.de/oooqs/
>
>which sits in the KDE tray and helps OpenOffice start somewhat faster. This
>is great if you use it a lot, as it remains in memory. If you don't use it
>very much, then it will just eat into the RAM you might use for something
>else.

I'll certainly take a look at this as most of the desktops will be used for 
running OOo, web access and email and not a lot else.

Cheers


Steve


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