On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 07:19:06AM +0200, Karolina Lindqvist wrote: > 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.
Cached pixmaps and video memory are taken into account here. vmstat is slightly more useful, but still, not very. > 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 used to run Konsole, Evolution, and a few instances of Konq, on the PII 350 with 128mb of RAM. As well as the P166 with 96mb of RAM. Granted, KDE certainly does take up a bit more RAM than I'd like, but it's not as bad as you make out. 256mb of RAM is an irresponsible figure to be bandying around. > > 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) If anything, I've found KDE 3.1 to be a huge speed improvement, for not much RAM tradeoff. -- Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> KDE: Konquering a desktop near you - http://www.kde.org
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