On Tue, November 2, 2004 5:04, Beartooth said: > On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 20:53:40 +0200, Markku Kolkka wrote: > >> All the stuff you have running in hidden workspaces and browser tabs is >> still consuming memory, CPU time and other system resources. You might >> see just one site being displayed but your machine is loaded with the >> task of keeping dozens of web pages ready for instantaneous display. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > You mean it's supposed to. But switching workspaces takes considerable > time -- more to switch to a browser than to the newsreader or a terminal, > and more to switch to firefox than to opera. And *everything* works slower > if firefox is open than if not -- including if Konqueror is open instead > of firefox. If switching workspaces takes considerable time (in the range of seconds) on a decent system with say 1.5GHz processor & 2D accelerated video card, then you're most likely running low on RAM and your kernel starts swapping things out to the hard drive. While switching is slow, observe whether your HDD is constantly on, that's often a sign of swapping. You may also observe your swap-usage, say with "top". If you encounter swapping: - Remove your fancy desktop background. It eats heaps of RAM! - Close unused apps - Buy more RAM -- HaJo Schatz <hajo@xxxxxxxx> http://www.HaJo.Net PGP-Key: http://www.hajo.net/hajonet/keys/pgpkey_hajo.txt
