KDE applications opening really slow

[angeljusto]

KDE applications takes ages to open. A window of the file manager, a konsole, kwrite, control centre, ...
All of these "light" apps takes from 7 up to 15 seconds and even more to open. It is quite annoying wait 10 seconds for a konsole or filemanager window!
On the other hand The GIMP takes 4 seconds to open!! OpenOfficce takes ages, more than 20 seconds, but i thought that could be normal. Some games and system utilities open almost inmediately.

Once the app is opened it works smoothly (all of them). I have already checked the hd parameters and the processes running. I can't see anything wrong. Well, there is one thing: on booting i see a couple of errors about DMA and xinetd. Could any of that be related?

I am not sure that this is a KDE thing, but it seems so. I am quite new to linux and even more to KDE so not sure where to start to check configuration settings...

There are a lot of stuff here and in other linux forums about slow performance, but I can't find anything appropiate for this case. I don't think this is a HD or Video problem because some apps work great. I have also tried to change the styles, icons, etc.

This is on a AMD XP 2200+, 256 MB RAM, 20GB HD, 64 MB NVidia GeForce. RedHat 9 and KDE 3.1-10.

Any idea will be appreciate it. Thanks.

[mdwatts]

JL forum search results for 'kde slow' (http://justlinux.com/forum/search.php?s=&action=showresults&searchid=894418&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending) of which the 3rd one from the top will give you a few suggestions that worked for another member that had the same problem as you.

Check your hostname and localhost as mentioned in that thread.

[angeljusto]

That was incredible :eek:

I am sorry i didn't read that message before. Everything is opening inmediately now! Superb!!

I corrected that line and added one more like that:

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost orballo
192.168.2.3 orballo.localdomain orballo

(of course that last line was not from my inspiration and supreme intelligence, I just read about this file from O'Reilly's "Running Linux" ;) )

I was looking for the rc.conf file that message mentioned for a while... Then i opened my friend from O'Reilly (I think it's very good form newbies like myself) and realised that RedHat hasn't got that file.

Just one question: Should I have to add one more line with the gateway? Although everything is working fine (internet, lan, etc). What is the exact meaning of this file? I mean, how the apps or services use it?

Thank you very much for your quick response (again!).

[mdwatts]

Glad to help.

I didn't mention using static ip addressing as most here use dhcp.

From my /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost mdw4

192.168.1.4 mdw4.mdwsystems.net mdw4

Gateway address? Mine (SuSE) uses

/etc/sysconfig/network/routes

default 192.168.1.1 - -