On 9/27/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 04:41:12PM -0400, Manu Hack wrote: > > On 9/27/07, Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Am Donnerstag, 27. September 2007 21:02 schrieb Manu Hack: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > I have a general question which I got when trying out different > > > > windows managers/desktop environments. When I try to use windowmaker > > > > (I wanted to make my computer faster as it's getting old), it > > > > certainly is fast for initialization. But after that when around > > > > 10-15 windows are opened and distributed in different workspaces, I > > > > found moving around different workspaces and windows pretty slow (I > > > > compared with KDE which I usually use.) and thus I still decided to > > > > stick with KDE for the moment. Maybe the comparison is not fair as > > > > KDE definitely needs longer time to initialize. But my question is, > > > > is there a reason for that? > > > > > > > > Manu > > > You might need more RAM > > > > I agree. :) But I'm still confused as to why KDE can outperform (at > > least up to my experience) a supposedly light weight wm (maybe > > windowmaker is not lightweight enough, will try fluxbox later) on the > > same machine. Is that because of something like memory management or > > something like that? > > its probably got more to do with memory *use* than management. By that > I mean, you may end up wasting memory by using kde apps within a > different wm. The kde apps will load up whole bunches of kde libs in > order to function in addition to the libs used by whatever wm you're > using. You haven't said what your 10-15 windows are doing, so I'm only > guessing. Also, it what ways does kde perform better than windowmaker? > is it in overall response of the system? screen drawing? window > dragging? just switching from one app to another within the same > workspace?
More windows are pretty standard, like gaim, iceweasel, icedove, xchat, amule, etc. The thing happened is that whenever I need to move to a workspace with more than 3 windows already there, it takes seconds to "reload" and always give me a window on top which is not previous on the top. I don't know why but it never happened in KDE or Xfce. > > > > > The reason I'm asking is that I want to change because before I > > thought I can improve the efficiency by using a more lightweight wm > > but it turns out it's not true in my case. So maybe as long as the > > memory is enough to use KDE (or GNOME), KDE can be faster than those > > lightweight wm because they use more memory? > > you should do some more comprehensive testing to see if you can figure > out what's going on. keep an eye on a top instance or two and sort > them by processor usage and memory usage. That will give some > insight. Yeah, will do if I have the time. But at the moment I'm very happy with xfce4.4 (fast and with the real transparency stuff). :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
