kde alpha slow

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Mon Mar 2 00:24:39 UTC 2009


Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
> Hello KDE Sig
> 
> It has been reported to me several times this week, that the KDE alpha
> livecd boots very slowly. I have tried it and confirm under 512mb RAM)
> that after plymouth it takes more than 30 minutes to get the KDE
> desktop in place, before the installation could start. The
> installation takes again another 30 minutes.

My own tests boot < 1 minute, but I've more than 512mb ram.

I'll dig up the magic boot options to limit amount of memory used by the 
kernel, and redo the test.

-- Rex



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