Re: Memory Usage - KDE - Where is discussion on this?
Geez.. I could live with that.. Wonder how you got yours so low. Wondering if
this is again related to the fonts.. Next install I will have to check it as
I add each package.. :)
But having said that about MG being used on initial startup, it doesn't do bad
when adding apps to the load, except that kmail uses a lot if you render html
emails, and the konqueror issue. Right now, with konqueror freshly fired up,
and kmail running, with two shells.. A Typical load for an end user, and i
get the following..
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 127172 123024 4148 186556 2708 29472
-/+ buffers/cache: 90844 36328
Swap: 128516 2344 126172
NOTE: I tend to look at the 'used' column, as that would have tagged Swap if
over pysical size, even though only 90 MG is currently used
But give it a full day of work, and the leaks get me into swap on this machine
and that's when I grumble :) But the point someone made about the
comparision with Win95 remains valid.. Webbrowser, Email Client, (except
maybe outlook :) running on a freshly booted machine can run on less hardware
than the current KDE, albeit all the added advantages that the current KDE
might have, at the end user level, there would definetly be a comparison
made, and I would hate for the word 'bloated' to ever get associated to Linux
in the press :) Of course, now comparing to an XP requirements might be more
fair. But getting slightly off-topic..
Debian/KDE is strictly releated to Debian, and I guess this is more a general
concern, to any Linux/X/KDE installation, but of course it may affect future
decision makers, so I guess worth bringing up once in a while.
<General Message Bloat>
Most of the products we (my company) deal with tend to be server products,
rather than desktops, so they tend to have enough RAM that they can afford to
throw away an extra 64 MG for desktops tools, if it makes it easier to use.
And by the time this comes of a concern, desktop users may be all sitting
with 4-8GIG of ram to spend, and if the developers can get out twice as many
features/programs/tools at the expense of a little 'bloat' I for one am not
going to shout too loud about the 'M evils' involved. Linux is growing up,
and academic concerns vs marketing and other concerns might occasionally need
to be sacrificed. But I can still dream can't I ..
<End Bloat, taking off list>
On Saturday 15 February 2003 10:34, Chris Cheney wrote:
> On my laptop KDE 3.1 when started (even with ksysguard applet on kicker)
> it only takes 43060K (see second line on free). That said I do think
> there was or possibly still is some kind of memory leak but I don't know
> where.
>
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 240196 109972 130224 0 5416 61496
> -/+ buffers/cache: 43060 197136
> Swap: 530104 0 530104
>
>
> Chris
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