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Re: Excessive KDE mem usage



On Thursday 06 March 2003 12:03 pm, Casper Gielen wrote:
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> KDE is using excesssive amounts of memory. Currently it uses over 800 mb
> after boot. Many KDE programms hover around the 80 megabytes (virtual)
> memory. After increasing my swapspace by a gigabyte I was able to get
> through startup, which took me 15 minutes. This might be related by the
> fontconfig problems have reported, but I have not had any trouble with that
> so far. (I have fontconfig 2.1.90 installed).
> When everthing is done loading, the system is usable. Some programms
> (notably kopete & kmail) keep slowly growing, but this seems to be due to
> "normal" leaks.

run fc-cache as root with kde not running and then login to kde and see if it 
still does uses up this much.



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