[plug] slowdown probs

[Gavin Corfield]

John Knight wrote:
> 
> What I mean here is that on a distro a year or so old, Gnome and KDE run
> perfectly smoothly but smegging awful now. Why is there such a drastic
> change? Surely the coding gets better with time on these, making them run
> faster?
> 
> My mates are using S3 Trios, which are PCI. I'm afraid that KDE is necessary
> though as Aston is also part of the KDE UK Translation Team and needs to run
> KBabel (unless KBabel can be run under WindowMaker, most X apps are
> interchangeable, aren't they?). Plus, KDE is the better Desktop in our
> opinion.

How up to date is the distro?  I'm now running rh 7.1 and have noticed a
slowdown in performance along with more swapping.  The install stuff for
rh 7.1 does warn that then 2.4.blah kernels swap a lot more so that may
be what you are seeing.

gavin