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Why does my KDE desktop grind to a crawl when I'm downloading a file. I have a fast PC... I don't understand??? Can I set the task priority to 'normal' like in XP to free up some cpu cycles?
Thanks guys for your help. I have an Athlon XP 3200+ Barton on a nForce2 board with 512MB of DDR memory running at 400MHz. I'm using Slack 9.1 and Mozilla. I installed only the nvnet drivers for the integrated nic.
I did some test with burning a cd, watching a divx movie and copping a large file from one partition to another. I found no crawlege... only happens while downloading a big file like a 650MB+ ISO file. I also tried downloading with Konqueror and it also slowed the desktop to the point that the mouse pointer will hesitate to move.
With that hardware cofiguration you should not have any hardware bottlenecks. I lean toward trickykid's idea that some piece of software is being a resource hog. What about the "nvnet drivers for the integrated nic"?
Well the D-Link card worked. I didn't have to install any drivers and now Noooo Slooow downs. Thanks guys... I guess integrated nics suck or more likely just immature nForce drivers for Linux.
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