On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 10:23:46PM +0200, Karolina Lindqvist wrote: > tisdagen den 8 april 2003 05.39 skrev Terry Milnes: > > I have 128MB of RAM and it seems to always be completely used up when I am > > logged in as user. I know that this could be causing my slowdown, but what > > else can be causing it? Secondly, how do I speed things up without > > installing more RAM? > > KDE 3.1.x is a complete memory hog. An interesting exersize is to run a RAM > display program like gmemusage. Right now, I have: > > linux 28MB > xfree86 115MB > kdeinit 135MB > the rest of my memory are divided in smaller chunks. I thought you'd know that saying how much memory kdeinit takes is *utterly* *useless*. Obviously not. > xfree86 115MB!!!!! > What is the X server doing with all that RAM? > Not, it is not a memory leak. I quitted xsane, and gqview, and it went down to > *only* 53MB. > There is no chance in that is going to run on a 128MB system. Well, to be fair, a lot of this is cache. gqview and xsane aren't the most memory-friendly, et al. > So, the recommendation: Get more RAM! > > The alternative is to run KDE like windows. Start only one application at the > time, and expect it to run out of memory. I never had any problems with KDE 2.2 on a P166 with 64 (later 96) mb of RAM, nor the PII 350 with 128mb of RAM. -- Daniel Stone <daniel@raging.dropbear.id.au> <dstone@kde.org> KDE: Konquering a desktop near you - http://www.kde.org
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