On Wednesday 14 March 2007 11:30 am, Mark Hull-Richter wrote: > I used KDE briefly on my SuSE Linux at home, but it kept the CPU so > busy that everything ran slower than <you know what>. I'm not seeing > that problem with gnome, here at work (CentOS 4.4+) or at home (still > SuSE until I put in the new Mobo/Mem/Video). Has that changed, or is > KDE still a CPU/GPU hog? Note that I don't use CentOS on my desktop; I use Mandriva 2005 (I know it's old; eventually I'll move to something else, perhaps CentOS5). I keep ten different screens open, and usually five or six copies of Mozilla, and KMail with one main window and five or so individual emails windows. I occasionally see a spike, and when I run the desktop without rebooting over two months or so, I sometimes even lock up and have to leave the computer for a few hours if I want it to catch up with itself and start running again without a restart. But generally KDE runs very well for me: <snip> top - 08:55:15 up 33 days, 19:29, 1 user, load average: 0.30, 0.27, 0.20 Tasks: 164 total, 1 running, 163 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 12.5% us, 4.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 83.1% id, 0.2% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 1018328k total, 998416k used, 19912k free, 24660k buffers Swap: 1044152k total, 341648k used, 702504k free, 219348k cached </snip> Note this is the KDE that came with Mandriva 2005 LE. Jeff -- Jeff Lasman, Nobaloney Internet Services P.O. Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 Our blists address used on lists is for list email only voice: +1 951 643-7540, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html"