On Thursday 17 October 2002 17.32, Kevin McLauchlan wrote:
On Thursday 17 October 2002 04:22, Anders Johansson wrote:
[... KDE bogs a limited-resource computer]
I then tried xfce on that machine, and suddenly it was usable again. I even got good response time, programs would come up almost immediately and in general using the computer became not the recipe for heart attacks it was before.
I'm now using blackbox even on my big machine at home. If I could just find an email program as usable as kmail I'd get rid of kde completely.
How much of the KDE overhead is invoked if you start KMail in blackbox?
hm. Good question. I thought I knew how to read the numbers in "free" and "ps", but apparently I don't. kmail has a virtual size of 35 MB of which about 20 is resident, and the kdeinit processes take up some number of MB too (RSS) but according to "free" the available memory only drops by about 13MB when I start it. Can anyone tell me how to read this? USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND andjoh 3314 3.6 3.9 35284 20456 ? S 17:36 0:00 kmail andjoh 3316 0.1 1.9 22172 10036 ? S 17:36 0:00 kdeinit: Running... andjoh 3319 0.2 2.0 22516 10512 ? S 17:36 0:00 kdeinit: dcopserver --nosid --suicide andjoh 3322 0.2 2.1 24656 11012 ? S 17:36 0:00 kdeinit: klauncher andjoh 3324 3.8 2.5 24456 13036 ? S 17:36 0:00 kdeinit: kded andjoh 3335 0.1 2.1 22576 10896 ? S 17:36 0:00 kdeinit: kio_imap4 imap /tmp/ksocket-andjoh/klaunchermkxnta.slave-socket /tmp/ksocket-andjoh/kmailXzHVPb.slave-socket and free, before and after total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 514108 497140 16968 0 40420 359032 -/+ buffers/cache: 97688 416420 Swap: 658656 332 658324 total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 514108 509244 4864 0 42084 356524 -/+ buffers/cache: 110636 403472 Swap: 658656 332 658324 Something just doesn't add up here. Anders