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List:       mandrake-newbie
Subject:    Re: FW: [newbie] Gnome, or KDE
From:       dfox () m206-157 ! dsl ! tsoft ! com (dfox)
Date:       2002-08-31 5:54:51
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> I use the following programs in the same time usually:
> vmware (running win98), mplayer, xmms, krusader, openoffice
> 
> The cpu load in KDE 2.2 is around 89%, in gnome 1.4 around 31%(or even less)
> The machine is a 1,2GHz celeron with 256MB RAM

I think it may not be a KDE versus gnome issue - and even if it is, then
switching over to KDE 3.0.3 may be a good choice. I've been using KDE
mostly (since about pre-1.0). KDE does require more horsepower than does
gnome - at least from my experience. Of course, this is more noticeable
on slower systems -- but I'm hesitant to believe that KDE in and of it-
self is responsible for the difference in cpu load. It's more likely that
some process (and it may be unique to your kde startup) is using up more
CPU than it should be. 

My app load is somewhat similar - I don't normally have open office 
loaded, but it itself takes up a pretty fair amount of resources, and
maybe what you're seeing is overloading because of the smaller memory 
footprint that gnome has vs. KDE, and that's probably noticeable on
a 256 meg RAM system. Still that doesn't explain (at least to me) an
increased CPU load. I have 256 megs of RAM also, and my 'normal' 
load is mozilla, konqueror, a couple of konsoles/xterms, xmms usually,
mplayer, setiathome, and so forth.

> T.


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