I think so, check all the service u run. I just use 128Mb, never got like what u got. I monitor my memory used by gkrellm and open bluefish, opera, netscape, xmms, yahoo messenger, prozilla download manager, audio galaxy satellite, and still works fine, with not that much of using memory as u did. It's absolutely not windoze box!
Well, yeah gnome is good, but kde has too many thing that much more interesting, like integration of all kde application. Kde is more fancy, but u could use window maker or black box which is lighter. -m- On Monday 03 December 2001 18:12, you wrote: > this has been gone into for ever..but what you are veiwing _Might_ have to > do with the cache use by linux. I don't think it is a "memory leak" (this > ain't your win 95 box) > > On Monday 03 December 2001 04:08, you wrote: > > I think my KDE has a memory leak, although I've not been able to find any > > info on the possibility at kde.org. When I first turn on the computer, > > KDE is using about 80MB, just now it was using 250MB (ouch!). I got those > > two numbers from gtop. The memory usage builds up slowly over time. > > > > I just shutdown kde and looked at my memory with top, and despite all the > > kde processes being gone the memory usage didn't drop by much at all. At > > runlevel 3 with X/kde shutdown, and nothing but top being ran by me > > directly, I had about 70MB free of my 384MB of memory. That just doesn't > > sound right. I thought I left memory fragmenting behind with the > > Macintosh > > > > :) > > > > Now, coming back into kde, kde is using about 150MB. A big improvement > > over 250MB, but still more than it seems like it should be using. > > > > I am using kde 2.2.1. I had 2.2.2 briefly installed and noted it did the > > same thing. > > > > Searching the net doesn't turn up much. It seems people think Linux > > handles memory ok :) > > > > I think I will start using gnome or iceWM for a while and see if I notice > > the same thing happening. > > > > Matt > > > > _________________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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