Someone once complained that his Mandrake machine ran KDE faster than on
Gentoo. He was told that gcc option -z combreloc would make a difference.

I can't compare and I don't use KDE but here is my CFLAGS just in case:

CFLAGS="-march=athlon-mp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr
-falign-functions=4 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -ffast-math -z combreloc -m3dnow
-msse -mmmx -frerun-cse-after-loop -frerun-loop-opt"


Hth


Jason wrote:
> Also, if you are not using the CK-Kernel you can make the GUI more
> responsive by running X as nice -10 so that compiles and multimedia
> don't make it choppy.
>
> In addition, you can also prelink your machine to make programs start
> faster.
>
> On 31 Jul 2003 17:38:46 GMT, "Lee J." <leej@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Meanwhile in the Korova Milkbar, Bob's rassoodock was made up
>>and bolshy yarblockos were golossed:
>>[..]
>>
>>>Thanks for all the help you guys. I finally got KDE on Gentoo
>>>working, but unfortunately I found out that it isn't any
>>>faster than FreeBSD (though not slower either), despite all
>>>the manual configuration that took place.
>>
>>Are you sure there isn't a configuration problem with KDE?
>>Dodgy network settings can slow down KDE. I ask because I've
>>had quite different results from FreeBSD to Gentoo.
>>
>>
>>>Therefore I decided to stick with FreeBSD. It has a very
>>>wide-spread userbase (Linux in general has too, but specific
>>>Gentoo users are a bit more hard to find),
>>
>>Did you not find http://forums.gentoo.org ?
>
>