-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am Dienstag, 8. April 2003 23:42 schrieb Hendrik Sattler: > Am Dienstag, 8. April 2003 23:08 schrieb Patrick Dreker: > > The X memory usage includes AGP mem. So if your card has 32 meg of RAM > > you have to subtract this first. My X reports 290 megs used, but I have > > 128 megs of that on my graphics board. > > 290-128=? > That's too much ;) > I'm pretty sure that X does not use that much. Sure. top readings for memory have a history of being annoyingly easy to misunderstand (read: being wrong). IIRC these memory readings show all mem used by shared libs as belonging to the app, so these are displayed multiple times.
My X mem numbers are probably disturbed by the Nvidia drivers. Who knows what these actually do behind their proprietary scenes... > BTW: KDE3.1.1 can run fine with 128MB and I am not so sure that all the > blame for memory hogging goes to KDE itself. I have 512 meg of RAM, and the machine never swaps under normal use. Basically I don't care for the memory usage, as long as I have the impression of getting something in return, and using KDE I certainly have that impression. ;-) > What's worse is that KDE still takes ages to start, independent on how fast > the system is. KDM starts up fast (although it is still pretty slow), too, > so somewhere must be a big problem in the startup routine. The whole > desktop creation stuff simply cannot take that long, other window managers > do that much faster, too. QT and KDE libs and all that is already loaded by > KDM. What does actually take that long? Or to be more specific: what eats > up the most time at KDE startup? Adding more RAM does not improve the situation either. Logging in takes almost 1 minute on my AMD 1200/512meg. Starting kwin manually from a failsafe X Session is almost instantaneous. Same for kdesktop... startkde OTOH takes as long as a usual login... Patrick -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+k1GFcERm2vzC96cRAobiAJ9jRcSjAAfJGAoTAzMfl3KB/HbErACfR2Rl BHtGFYnA0sD98SKtA8Kk9ZY= =UzrE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----