[NCLUG] Mouse Sticks to Widgets After Upgrade to RH 7.3

[Charles Clarke]

On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Mike Loseke wrote:

> Thus spake Marcio Luis Teixeira:
> > 
> > On Monday 10 June 2002 08:58 am, Mike Loseke wrote:
> > 
> > > CPU states:  0.7% user,  1.9% system,  0.0% nice, 97.2% idle
> > 
> > Mem:    94320K av,   87360K used,    6960K free
> > Swap:  265032K av,   42188K used,  222844K free
> > 
> > So, memory isn't much of an issue here. I've sort of found out that KDE isn't 
> > as slow as I initially thought -- it's mostly Konqueror that's slow. When the 
> > system is idle the CPU line in "top" reads:
> 
>  Beware konqueror - it grows like a weed. I've had it up in size over
> 700MB. Restart it frequently. But 90MB RAM is pretty light for running X.

Note that you are already using 40MB of swap.  This means that you can
easily speed things up by adding more memory.  Your slowdowns are probably
due to paging.  Especially when it is pulling in all types of images, etc.

charles