Uwe Thiem wrote: > > This is odd.My main workstation also has 384MB of ram. I run a full KDE > session and do not experience any slow down. Right now, I have open: 9 > konqueror windows (not tabs), kmail, kmahjongg, konsole with 3 sessions, > noatun, kcalc. My background is a 1024x768 photo which also takes some > memory. Switching between virtual desktops is instantaneous, all apps are > very responsive. > > One good thing (among others) of using a real desktop environment is that all > apps share the vast majority of libraries which are loaded into memory just > once. When you mix environments or use an eclectic collection of unrelated > apps, they all draw in different libraries and memory usage goes up. > > Uwe > >
I tend to agree with this. I use KDE myself. I have 1Gb of ram but as I type only about 280 MBs of it is in use. The rest is disk cache. I have a full blown KDE and I have Seamonkey, Konsole with several tabs open, Kppp, Konqueror, Kpatience, Kopete and Gkrellm open. I also have a lot of server stuff running too. Ntp, cups, folding which uses a lot on this unit, nut, rsync, http-replicator, distcc and no telling what else I forgot about. With a fresh login. I use less than 100MBs and that is with all that servers stuff and folding running still. Well, folding varies. Sometimes it uses a lot. sometimes not. Maybe you need to use top to see what is using all that memory. I have ran KDE with 256MBs of ram and had no problems with that either. 128MBs may be a problem though. That's getting into using swap a bit. Post back what you find though. I'm curious now. Maybe post what top says. This is mine showing only what uses more than 1%: > 8614 root 34 19 117m 90m 1384 S 0.0 9.0 0:01.51 > FahCore_a0.exe > 8616 root 34 19 117m 90m 1384 S 0.0 9.0 0:00.03 > FahCore_a0.exe > 8617 root 39 19 117m 90m 1384 R 24.6 9.0 5132:32 > FahCore_a0.exe > 8618 root 34 19 117m 90m 1384 S 0.0 9.0 0:00.00 > FahCore_a0.exe > 5373 dale 15 0 201m 78m 23m S 0.0 7.7 2:55.74 seamonkey-bin > 20372 root 15 0 82616 48m 5380 S 1.3 4.8 5:00.31 X > 16683 distcc 35 15 47360 38m 5620 R 29.3 3.8 0:00.88 cc1plus > 22159 dale 15 0 61004 29m 18m S 0.0 3.0 0:44.93 kopete > 22578 root 15 0 36628 24m 19m S 0.0 2.4 0:02.19 konqueror > 22119 dale 15 0 32028 18m 11m S 0.0 1.9 1:32.15 kdesktop > 22143 dale 15 0 25704 15m 12m S 0.0 1.6 0:02.99 kpat > 22126 dale 15 0 28460 14m 11m S 0.0 1.4 0:10.78 kicker > 22144 dale 15 0 24012 14m 11m S 0.0 1.4 0:00.98 kppp > 22150 dale 15 0 27848 13m 10m S 0.0 1.3 0:14.60 konsole > 22149 dale 15 0 27396 13m 10m S 0.0 1.3 0:00.48 kgpg > 22160 dale 20 0 23260 12m 11m S 0.0 1.3 0:02.85 kdesu > 22102 dale 15 0 27776 12m 10m S 0.0 1.3 0:02.58 kded > 6334 haldaemo 15 0 14048 12m 1632 S 0.0 1.2 31:51.26 hald > 22117 dale 15 0 31744 12m 9528 S 0.0 1.2 0:03.84 knotify > 22115 dale 24 0 25460 11m 9316 S 0.0 1.1 0:04.57 kwin > 22169 dale 15 0 24448 10m 9016 S 0.0 1.1 0:00.33 klipper > 6882 root 15 0 23724 10m 9100 S 0.0 1.1 0:00.14 kio_uiserver Maybe one of the gurus will see something strange. Dale :-) :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/dalek1967
