Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User
* Karolina Lindqvist schrieb am 08.04.03 um 22:23 Uhr:
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> kpackage is practically unusable on a small system. It grabs over 100MB of RAM
> when I run it, making my get down on its knees.
>
> 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.
>
An alternative may be to install fontconfig and to run fc-cache...
;)
This was at least a common pitfall for many people that reported
such problems of much memory usage...
KDE needs way too much mem indeed, but:
schiffi@homer:~$ ps aux | head -n1
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME
COMMAND
schiffi@homer:~$ ps aux | grep kdeinit
schiffi 750 0.0 1.3 23536 6944 ? S Apr08 0:00 kdeinit: Running...
schiffi 753 0.0 0.4 25208 2348 ? S Apr08 0:02 kdeinit: dcopserver --nosid
schiffi 756 0.0 0.5 26880 3032 ? S Apr08 0:00 kdeinit: klauncher
schiffi 758 0.0 0.8 30532 4600 ? S Apr08 0:04 kdeinit: kded
schiffi 769 0.0 0.5 27076 3052 ? S Apr08 0:04 kdeinit: kaccess
schiffi 781 0.0 0.7 32800 4092 ? S Apr08 0:00 kdeinit: knotify
schiffi 784 0.0 0.6 27064 3436 ? S Apr08 0:00 kdeinit: ksmserver
schiffi 785 0.0 1.0 30232 5340 ? S Apr08 0:12 kdeinit: kwin -session
schiffi 787 0.0 3.2 37284 16696 ? S Apr08 0:13 kdeinit: kdesktop
schiffi 789 0.0 2.7 34360 14160 ? S Apr08 0:27 kdeinit: kicker
schiffi 790 0.0 1.4 25128 7708 ? S Apr08 0:00 kdeinit: kio_file file
schiffi 806 0.0 2.2 29976 11376 ? S Apr08 0:01 kdeinit: kmix -session
schiffi 807 0.0 2.1 30180 10872 ? S Apr08 0:00 kdeinit: ksirc -session
schiffi 819 0.0 3.1 34692 16036 ? S Apr08 0:44 kdeinit: konsole
schiffi 834 0.0 2.2 29460 11764 ? S Apr08 0:00 kdeinit: kio_uiserver
-Marc
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