onsdagen den 9 april 2003 01.18 skrev Daniel Stone: > I thought you'd know that saying how much memory kdeinit takes is > *utterly* *useless*. Obviously not.
It is not useless, as it says how much RAM is taken by KDE + some of the applications. gmemusage just can't give a more find graded approach. Maybe there is a memory leak there somewhere, after all, since on a freshly started X-server + KDE, the memory usage is much more reasonable. Which on my system means 23MB for X, 23MB for kdeinit (KDE). With kmail 10MB, some other KDE applications 7MB, that means 63MB to run a basic X + KDE. And that includes even one instance konqueror. That amount starts to grow after a while, and never goes down to that level again. Which is why I say that for practical purposes, it appears that 256MB is a reasonable amount of RAM, in my opinion. Unless you run just only kmail + one instance of konqueror and noth more. Then 128MB might be allright. Which does not mean that it does not work with less. But it can cause a lot of paging and swapping and thus gives a slow system, no matter how many MHz there is in the processor. > I never had any problems with KDE 2.2 on a P166 with 64 (later 96) mb of > RAM, nor the PII 350 with 128mb of RAM. KDE 2.2 is a different animal altogether. On small machines that works much better. I even run single KDE 3.1 applications on my 100MHz pentium firewall machine. (kmyfirewall, and sometimes konsole. Nothing else of KDE is installed on it. Something that can't be done with the official SID KDE) Karolina
