On Thursday 06 March 2003 20:03, Casper Gielen wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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. > > top - 19:51:14 up 2:05, 2 users, load average: 0.44, 1.18, 1.45 [...]
I guess top is lying just as much as ps does. http://developer.kde.org/documentation/other/shared_memory.html CU Andi
