[Wine] Wine painfully slow in KDE, but not GNOME
Paul Romanyszyn
pgr at arcelectronicsinc.com
Sun Jun 4 00:40:45 CDT 2006
Steven Pasternak wrote:
> Hi! I have an FC5 system installed with gnome 2.14 kde 3.5 and wine
> 0.9.13. I installed seamonkey on wine to see how it works, and it works
> at full speed under gnome, but not kde. Under KDE it is so slow that if
> I type in the location bar, I have to wait about a second to see each
> character. Gnome, as I said a second ago, works as fast as the linux
> version. Is KDE running a bunch of stuff that eats computer power, or is
> my computer too slow, or is GNOME just more efficient? Thanks!
> -Steven
>
By default kde installs kat. It is a file indexer and if you have lots
of files and a big disk it eats resources and cpu cycles for many hours
until it indexes everything.
Use top to see if it is running after you boot into kde.
I just uninstalled it.
Paul
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