On Tuesday 03 May 2005 15:57, Jes Hall wrote: > > On Tue, 3 May 2005, YuChan Park wrote: > > > 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? > > > The way Linux manages memory is a little different to other operating > sytems, especially Windows. These links have a lot of information about > it: > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=175419 > http://developer.kde.org/documentation/other/shared_memory.html > > Memory usage reported in top can be very misleading. As long as you're not > swapping out excessively, having a lot of memory in use is not a bad > thing, especially if everything is still responsive and doen't seem slow You are implying that KDE does not excessively eats memory. I think you will change your opinion if you boot your box with mem=128M kernel parameter and work with that setting for several days. Use this script (w_process): #!/bin/sh watch -d -n3 'pmap "'"$1"'" | grep "^[0-9a-f][0-9a-f]* " | sort -r -t " " -k2,999 | head -20' and pick any KDE process to watch. For example, my KMail: # w_process 1884 0825c000 12684K rwxp [heap] 40cfb000 6180K r-xp /.share/usr/app/qt-x11-free-3.2.3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3.2.3 4062f000 2612K r-xp /.share/usr/app/kde-3.1.4/lib/libkio.so.4.1.0 40013000 2584K r-xp /.share/usr/app/kde-3.1.4/lib/libkhtml.so.4.1.0 408d5000 2092K r-xp /.share/usr/app/kde-3.1.4/lib/libkdeui.so.4.1.0 08048000 2040K r-xp /.share/usr/app/kde-3.1.4/bin/kmail 40b1c000 1412K r-xp /.share/usr/app/kde-3.1.4/lib/libkdecore.so.4.1.0 416b7000 1080K r-xp /app/glibc-2.3.2/lib/libc-2.3.2.so 41498000 752K r-xp /.share/usr/X11R6-4.4.0/lib/libX11.so.6.2 4049c000 744K r-xp /.share/usr/app/kde-3.1.4/lib/libkdenetwork.so.2.0.0 ... [heap] is basically how much memory was malloc()ed. It's KDE 3.1.4. I am interested how much KDE 3.4 eats. -- vda ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.