Edward Murrell wrote: > On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 07:16, Jens Benecke wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> > I'm starting to wonder how much difference gentoo's optimization >> > actually makes. The labs at uni where I'm writing this from have near >> > identical >> >> /home on NFS makes Gnome/KDE etc. quite slow, because they keep writing >> cache files there, and NFS generally has worse access times (not >> necessarily data transfer rates) than harddisks. > > That's what I would have thought, but apparently, despite all that, my > machine, running 2.6.3, Local ReiserFS access to everything, and a > custom kernel was slower. Go figure.
Hm. Try running "fc-cache" as root, and as user, _before_ starting up KDE. This will recreate the font cache that fontconfig/xft/... use for display. If your KDM login window takes very long (>3sec) to appear this might be the problem, as it does affect other apps as well, especially the startup time. -- Jens Benecke (jens at spamfreemail.de) http://www.hitchhikers.de - Europaweite kostenlose Mitfahrzentrale http://www.spamfreemail.de - 100% saubere Postfächer - garantiert! http://www.rb-hosting.de - PHP ab 9? - SSH ab 19? - günstiger Traffic . Please DO NOT CC: me, I read the lists and newsgroups I post in! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
