On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 20:34:58 -0400, Roy J. Tellason <rtellason@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have noticed the same sort of behavior here at times. Most of the time I've > got Konqueror and Kmail running, and not much else. Sometimes I fire up > another program, maybe Knode, or perhaps Kscd and Kmix. > > What I've noticed, because I have top running on a text console, is that > over time the amount of swap used (in addition to system ram, which ain't > much on this box) continues to grow. It keeps growing as long as I run this > stuff, and the system gets more and more sluggish, with that HD light > staying on more and more of the time, until I find it intolerable and shut > down X altogether. At that point I'll turn swap off, back on again, and > fire up startx, and things will work fine. For a while. > > This seems to be a nontrivial memory leak, somewhere. I don't know versions, > but this was happening with whatever the heck I got under Slackware 9.0, and > stayed about the same in the stuff that came with 9.1. I haven't gotten > newer here to try out yet. > > It'd be nice if somebody could take a look at this. > I have same situation, open Konsole with 10 or more sessions, Konqueror for web browser and Kmail. After a day or more idle, Konsole little bit sluggish and i've to close Konqueror because eating system ram 100Mb just to open 2 website in tab.. duh... After I close Konqueror, Konsole running better but not much :-) Off topic, whenever Kmail run for fetching to POP server, it's eat 50%-90% of processor resource, is that normal ? Bambang ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.