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KDE == 70MB !?!
Date: 10/6/2004
Wow, you really don't know until you look. After reading the nice article I decided to check out the memory usage of the various components I currently have loaded in Redhat9:
  • Scribe: 41mb (yeah ok, I got a big mail folder)
  • Mozilla: 30mb (fine!)
  • X: 21mb (pretty good actually)
  • KDE: 70mb !!!! (being the sum of all the kdeinit tasks and kalarmd)
It seems like all the kdeinit tasks have some common overhead. Does anyone really know what I'm spending my MB's on here? I've also seen it go up to around 140mb at times.

		i.Task Process Listing

Name                 PID   Cpu  Cpu Time Mem     Priority User    Threads Command                                   
-------------------- ----- ---- -------- ------- -------- ------- ------- ----------------------------------------- 
scribe               1478  0.0% 0:24     41.01 M -5       matthew 2       ./scribe                                  
mozilla-bin          2755  0.0% 0:14     30.48 M -5       matthew 2       /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin            
X                    29850 2.7% 5:34     20.23 M -5       root    1       /usr/X11R6/bin/X                          
kdeinit (kicker)     32133 0.0% 0:07     10.82 M -5       matthew 1       kdeinit: kicker                           
kdeinit (kdesktop)   32131 0.0% 0:04     9.40 M  -5       matthew 1       kdeinit: kdesktop                         
kdeinit (knotify)    32125 0.0% 0:00     7.67 M  -5       matthew 1       kdeinit: knotify                          
kdeinit (kded)       32108 0.0% 0:29     7.39 M  -5       matthew 1       kdeinit: kded                             
kdeinit (kwrited)    32136 0.0% 0:00     6.70 M  -5       matthew 1       kdeinit: kwrited                          
kalarmd              32138 0.0% 0:00     6.24 M  -5       matthew 1       kalarmd                                   
kdeinit (ksmserver)  32128 0.0% 0:00     6.23 M  -5       matthew 1       kdeinit: ksmserver                        
kdeinit (klauncher)  32106 0.0% 0:00     5.65 M  -5       matthew 1       kdeinit: klauncher                        
lgiide               3811  0.0% 0:00     5.37 M  -5       matthew 2       /home/lemon/matthew/lgi/Lgi/LgiIde/lgiide 
kdeinit (dcopserver) 32103 0.0% 0:00     5.18 M  -5       matthew 1       kdeinit: dcopserver --nosid               
kdeinit (Running...) 32100 0.0% 0:00     5.16 M  -5       matthew 5       kdeinit: Running...                       
itask                3824  1.0% 0:00     4.91 M  -5       matthew 2       /home/lemon/matthew/lgi/i.Task/itask      
xfs                  3095  0.0% 0:48     4.74 M  -5       root    1       xfs                                       
gconfd-2             1733  0.0% 0:00     2.38 M  -5       matthew 1       /usr/libexec/gconfd-2                     
ntpd                 2863  0.0% 1:36     2.35 M  -5       root    1       ntpd                                      
oafd                 3534  0.0% 0:00     1.64 M  -5       matthew 1       oafd                                      
rcd                  3122  0.0% 1:14     1.45 M  -5       root    1       /usr/sbin/rcd                             
artsd                15025 0.0% 0:20     1.32 M  -5       matthew 1       /usr/bin/artsd                            
smb                  15447 0.0% 0:07     1.01 M  -5       root    1       smb:                  
ssh                  32156 0.0% 0:00     992 K   -5       matthew 1       ssh                                       
[snip]

	Cpu: 3.7%
	Mem: 506.43 M
	Tasks: 27 / 92
 
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