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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: kde, xfree & RAM
From:       Michael Pyne <pynm0001 () comcast ! net>
Date:       2004-06-09 23:28:50
Message-ID: 200406091928.57516.pynm0001 () comcast ! net
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On Wednesday 09 June 2004 19:11, Jean-Philippe Schneider wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In seeing table in ksysguard, i was stomached... For example i saw that
> kopete takes 40Mo of physical mem and 60 of virtual...
> Is that normal??? Ithink it is a little bit heavy!
> If someone could explain me ;)

It's a common misperception, because of the way memory reporting works under 
Linux.

The physical memory and virtual memory reports include not only Kopete, but 
any shared libraries it may be using.  This includes glibc, Internet support, 
and KDE too, of course. ;-)

Don't worry, though.  Most of that memory is shared by Linux between programs.  
So if you started up Kopete again, it doesn't double the memory use.

If you'd like to see how much memory there is left, there should be a module 
for that in ksysguard, or you can just use the free command from the shell.

Regards,
 - Michael Pyne
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