On 10/13/2010 03:55 PM, Clemens Eisserer wrote: >>> Yehiel, what is the RSS (Resident Set Size) for kglobalaccel ? >>> >>> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND >>> 2480 djyb 20 0 183m 127m 4048 S 0.0 12.7 0:49.64 kglobalaccel >>> >>> according to top, 127m, I guess that 127MB > WoW, sounds to me way too much for such a simple task, although I have > to add that KDE4's promise "thanks to cleanup and modularization it > will use less resources" is the most broken promise ^^ > > You might have a look at bugs.kde.org and file an appropriate entry if > you don't find one. > > Another good idea if you can invest some time is to use valgrind to > find out where all that memory is spentà > > - Clemens "Firgetaboutit" :) All KDE and GTK UI's are memory hogs AFAIAC. There is no way around it. It is what it is. When you have such multilayer applications, you end up having to link to many libs with funcs that malloc memory (some more than others) to do their work, you end up with a high mem usage. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines