On 6 May 2010 19:09, Richard Hartmann <richih.mailingl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 17:33, Dotan Cohen <dotanco...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Actually, I personally have not. However, this was actually the design >> goal of Qt4 and many users have tested and reported lower memory usage >> in KDE 4 compared to KDE 3. I don't know about CPU, though. > > For KDE 2 -> 3, this was true. I had 128 or 256 MiB of RAM back then > and when they announced that KDE 3 would use _less_ RAM, I laughed. > Well, they proved me wrong and KDE 3 gave new life to an old machine. > > With KDE 4.1, I was forced to upgrade from 512 MiB RAM to 1.2 GiB > to get from "pretty static pictures" to "slow". >
Maybe you were / are still using Qt3 applications? There is nothing wrong with that, but it will be memory-heavy. >> Also, the last time I ran KDE 3.5.10 it felt was noticeably lagging >> compared to my then-current KDE 4.3 setup on the same hardware. Note >> that the KDE 4.3 even had quite a few other apps installed, and the >> KDE 3.5.10 was a new install that I did to triage a possible >> regression. > > As said earlier, I have KDE 4 on a pretty new machine and KDE 3 on an > ancient one. If anything, a _lot_ more in installed & running on the KDE 3 > machine. > The KDE 3 machine is noticably faster in pretty much every regard. > So we agree: the more software on the system, the faster it runs! I'm installing Gimp now... >> Like I said, though, if you need Qt3 libraries in addition to Qt4 (for >> Quanta, for instance) then you will be using the memory of _both_, >> naturally, and that is a lot! > > Nope, pure Qt/KDE 4. > Then I don't know where the problem is / was. How does it run in KDE 4.4? What does top say? -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-what.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/y2z880dece01005060918ka5e64b76lc1e23cd6d8f4b...@mail.gmail.com
