Re: kdeinit - newbie questions
http://www.linuxmanagers.org/pipermail/linuxmanagers/2002-July/000597.html
there we go.... for all newbies out there, some more confirmation that having
all the memory used up is a good thing...;-)
On Monday 26 August 2002 7:35 pm, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 19:57, Pavel Bradut Boghita wrote:
> > What started me on this was that my machine is using about 100M of Ram
> > for ....what it seems not a lot - Xserver, Kmail, Konqueror. I was hoping
> > that it may have something to do with this kdeinit. But after reading the
> > provided references, there must be a different explanation.
> > Does this look like normal memory usage ?
>
> Actually, yes.
> First, the linux kernel always uses a lot of RAM. The reason: it is
> there, so we better use it. I.e., rather than leaving RAM alone that is
> not needed by apps, the kernel caches disk content in RAM for faster
> access. RAM will pretty much always be used nearly 100% in linux. this
> is normal. As long as you don't swap there's nothing to worry about.
>
> Second, after a quick glance on the kdeinit info I posted, it seems that
> kdeinit prelinks (and I guess preloads) libraries into memory for faster
> application startup time. So this may cause libs to be loaded in memory
> before apps request them, again leading to higher RAM usage. But I may
> well be very wrong on this, I am not an expert
>
> Third, KDE _does_ use a lot of memory. This is normal, too
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