RedHat 7.3, KDE3 on Celeron 366, 128M = What kind of performance?

[Mucman]

My school's lab migrated from Solaris and CDE to RedHat and KDE3.

It is so slow that I am considering sending a formal complaint! I can barely get any work done just because the lag. I am curious if that hardware is enough. Also our Home directories are an NFS mount. Could there be potential problems if all caching is written to the NFS mount? Mozilla took forever to open, and sending a small PM seems to be a minute long process now. Heck, even loading up KShell takes a while to load!

Now I got to ditch this place and go back home to my FreeBSD/Blackbox setup which is nice and quick 🙂 (of course it's on a 1GHZ PIII with 512M of RAM)

 

[mindwarp]

Well I got a PII-366 laptop with 180 megs of ram, and kde runs pretty decent. I never EVER run mozilla on it though, always konqueror or galeon. I guess it would really depend on if you are running all the programs off that NFS mount, or if moz etc. is local. KDE does run pretty good on my 366, but I turn off most of the effects.

 

[Mucman]

I got a response back from the Lab operators... they have been having network connectivity with the file server. that probably explains why even the shell responds slowly. I figured a 366 celeron and 128M should be enough to run a GUI.

 

[Sunner]

Should run fairly good as long as you turn off the eyecandy.

The easiest way is probabaly to run "kpersonalizer" and set it to speedy, rather than fancy, that will turn off pretty much all the fancy effects.

 

[Need4Speed]

I run one of my redhat installs on a Celery 400 with 128mb of Ram and it seems to run fine. Not like scorchingly fast, but decent to work on. I've had worse 🙂