On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 12:12:30 +0000, Sensei wrote:
> Menno Duursma wrote:
>> Looks good a?
>
> Better look, indeed! Especially font smoothing (AA).

Yes.

>> "new version" of what program(s)?
>> "really slower" in doing which task(s)?
>
> KDE 3.1.4,

Well, does it start slower?
(In that case you might want to have a look in `/etc/hosts' and see if
`localhost' is setup correctly. And if you get your `eth0' or `ppp' adress
via DHCP you might even want to setup a `dummy' interface and map your
hostname to that.)

> any other!

Odd, i have not noticed that at all.
Have a look at the output of `top'.
Also are you sure your HD is running DMA?
(Try `hdparm' for that.)

> Kernel 2.4.22 (self-compiled)...

Ok.
What's the status with the default kernel?
You might even want to try the one shiped with 9.0 as well.

>> Not if you don't provide any useable info/intel.
>
> On the same machine:
>
> Acer Aspire 1307LC
> Athlon XP 2200+
> 256 Mb SDRAM
> HD UDMA100 30 Gb

That should be a realy fast machine.

>> Which "Same packages" would that be?
>
> Everyone.
>
> > In that case you might be missing some packages needed in a 9.1 system.
>> I'd atleast "upgradepkg --install-new" the A, AP and L series of packages.
>
> I did a full install of 9.0, a full upgrade (packages from patches/ and
> linuxpackages.net).

Ok.

> I did a full install of 9.1 (keeping my home). All the installed
> packages have a version equal to the previous system.

Good, the reinstall should rule out the upgrade being the problem.

> I don't understand this slowdown... I'll add 256 Mb of RAM as soon as
> possible...

More RAM is useually a good idee, but 256MB should just be enough for your
everyday desktop system. I wouldn't expect you to notice much of a
difference unless you run lots of big apps.

There are some tweaks which makes a desktop more "snappy" if you will.
Such as patching the kernel lo-latency and preempt-able, running the
X-server at "nice -10" and sound at "nice -20", messing about disk-access
and filesystem settings, recompileing FPU intensive apps (optimized), etc.

However, since you didn't post haveing done any of that on 9.0 either i
suspect either "hostname (reverse) lookup failure" or HD setup incorrect...

--
-Menno.