KDE seems to take a lot of memory.
I have a 128MB machine, it`s a pure workstation with no servers. Mandrake 8.1, KDE 2.2.1. I have :- kmail 1.3.1 in desktop 1 konqueror 2.2.1 in desktop 2 terminal/shell in desktop 4 Once it`s booted up and I use top, I see 120MB in use and 4.6MB swap used. Yes, I know ram is cheap but I`m wondering why so much ram is used. Looking at my old trusty Amiga, obviously with a full GUI, with the YAM (mailer) plus voyager (web browser) and shell plus top, I see it using only 3.8MB and it`s running ntp in addition to comparable stuff on Mandrake e.g. screensaver.
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