On Friday 01 February 2002 18:16, you wrote: > 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. This is one of those frequently asked questions, and that is as it should be cause people migrating from other OSs don't see this at all. Linux does not like a void and will use RAM for caching data on your system. A bad explanation but check out the last few days in archives. There was a very good explanation just a day or two ago on how linux uses RAM and frees it up as needed. HTH -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842
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