* 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps aux | head -n1 USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ 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 -- begin LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.txt.vbs I am a signature virus. Distribute me until the bitter end