Hello Kders.. :) My system is running on KDE 3.4.0 and Fedora 3. KDE isn't slow but obtain a lot of system memory. Need KDE a huge memory for running? arch: i386 ( proscott 630, 3.0GHz) Memory: 1024M, swap: 2048M VGA: Gforce 6600-128M My top information as blow. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 27337 root 15 0 146m 101m 21m S 0.0 10.0 16:31.71 kopete 4252 root 15 0 186m 56m 4308 S 0.0 5.6 187:43.61 X 24173 root 16 0 67420 37m 20m S 0.0 3.7 0:19.41 konqueror 4801 root 16 0 62188 34m 16m S 0.0 3.4 11:17.92 konsole 31462 root 15 0 114m 33m 17m S 0.0 3.3 0:04.95 firefox-bin 4779 root 15 0 59988 32m 17m S 0.0 3.2 6:02.40 kicker 4777 root 16 0 51872 30m 16m S 0.0 3.0 0:27.40 kdesktop 4755 root 15 0 67620 28m 14m S 0.0 2.8 2:30.27 kded 4785 root 25 10 51136 26m 11m S 0.0 2.6 1:11.78 rhn-applet-gui 15905 root 15 0 45908 26m 12m S 0.0 2.6 2:43.92 kmix 4775 root 16 0 44972 26m 12m S 0.0 2.6 0:48.09 kwin 5108 root 16 0 45116 25m 12m S 0.0 2.5 0:02.76 kio_uiserver 4875 root 15 0 38724 19m 11m S 0.0 2.0 1:47.05 knotify 4772 root 16 0 31420 16m 9924 S 0.0 1.7 0:01.56 ksmserver 4769 root 16 0 31404 16m 9868 S 0.0 1.6 0:01.07 kaccess 24741 root 16 0 32596 16m 9472 S 0.0 1.6 0:00.06 kio_file 4747 root 16 0 31040 15m 8712 S 0.0 1.5 0:01.32 kdeinit .... ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.