ext4 (was: Gnome equiv. to Kate?)

[Madison Kelly]

CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:
> On 22/05/09 03:55 PM, Madison Kelly wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>>   I've been using kate for some time now, but I've found that since the
>> last few distro versions it has gotten slow as heck. I've got a 2.1GHz
>> CPU and 2GB of RAM and it can take several seconds just to have things
>> like switching between files, opening dialogs and such.
>>
>>   I am wondering if running a KDE app under Gnome is to blame or if it's
>> changes in the KDE system, but it's barely usable these days. Can anyone
>> recommend an equivalent?
> 
> This is not my experience with Kate, even on slower systems, but I run
> it in KDE 3.5.10 on Kubuntu Hardy and KDE 4.2x on Fedora 10, not that it
> should make a difference.

I am starting to wonder if it's because I am using ext4, as the slow 
downs seem to be in time with disk access. Anyone else had any exposure 
to ext4?

Particularly because I am using a laptop with a somewhat slow 5,400rpm 
platter HDD.

Madi
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