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