| title: | Re Are there any GNOME specific performance |
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On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 09:43:43 -0500
Sean Middleditch <elanthis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 09:15, Chris Rouch wrote:
I think, unfortunately, thats just the way it is. gnome 2.4 seems
to be designed to look pretty rather than be fast. Im hoping this
will be addressed in 2.6. While the performance is good on my
desktop (AMD 2800+, 1Gb ram, so it should be!), it was unacceptable
on my laptop(750MHz pentium II, 256Mb ram), so I ended up switching
back to fvwm for my desktop and just using the gnome clients.
Given that I ran 2.0 on a machine worse off than that (same RAM,
400mhz CPU, NFS homedir) and it was as snappy as could be, I would
wager your problem wasnt GNOME itself.
No it was the whole installation. redhat 7.2/gnome 1.4 was fast. redhat
8/gnome 2.0 (I think) was acceptable, redhat 9 / gnome 2.2. was too
slow. Using fvwm instead of gnome panel+sawfish made the system useable.
Possibly running redhat 7.2 with gnome 2.4 would be blindingly fast, but
I have my doubts. In any case its not really an option.
It seems to be the nature of big s/w that the more mature it gets the
bigger and slower it gets. Generally it doesnt matter because the h/w
has got even faster in the same time. Its when the h/w stands still
that you notice it.
I still have an old 450MHz box I can put Fedora and gnome 2.4 on. If
gnome is useable on there maybe Ill have another look at using it on
the laptop again.
Regards,
Chris
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