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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Excessive memory usage? (long)
From:       "Chris January" <chris () atomice ! net>
Date:       2002-05-09 23:35:41
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> Now, as you can see I only have a couple of konsoles, a couple of
konqueror,
> one displaying a text file, the other displaying kde.org, kmail (5500
messages more or less).
> Nevetheless, the system is sucking more than 128MB of memory. I've
searched for
> a kernel side explaination, but Andrea Arcangeli told me that cached
memory is
> effectively used by programs, so the total memory consumption sums up to
150 MB
> just for some basic tasks... it seems to much to me... do you see
something wrong
> or should I consider it as "normal"? I've compiled kdelibs
with --fast-malloc=full,
> don't know if it's relevant. BTW, when I start KDE and just one console
memory
> usage is around 60 MB...
That's great, the last release of KDE2-cygwin (the Windows port of KDE) uses
230MB just to reach the desktop... I believe Ralf has managed to get this
down to a more palatable 130MB recently, but that's still an awful lot of
RAM. I checked this against Linux, and indeed it seems KDE is taking up
around the 110MB figure, just sitting there with the desktop so your numbers
sound about right.

Regards
Chris



 
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