Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (115 mails)

[Lubos Lunak <l.lunak@xxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 17 of May 2009, Anshul Jain wrote:
> I had a chance to install the latest and greatest Opensuse 11.1 on my
> Thinkpad R61i yesterday. I have 1 GB of RAM and Intel Graphics Driver
> 945GM. I noticed that it takes a huge amount of memory at boot of
> around 300MB (measured through htop and free -m) w/o any applications
> on. I have turned off all necessary services like cups, avahi,
> bluetooth etc, autostart disabled in /usr/share/autostart for
> non-necessary services...still the high memory usage. I have all of
> the latest updates for KDE 4.2.3 and Qt 4.5.1 applied.
>
> Now Opensuse 11.0 had a far far less memory footprint of approx
> 170-180MB at boot w/ the same settings as above. Can someone help on
> why would KDE 4.2.3 in 11.1 and 11.0 show such a huge difference in
> memory footprint?

 One possible and very likely answer is that you are just not measuring 
properly, since it's very non-trivial to measure memory usage on Linux and 
99.9% people get it wrong. See http://ktown.kde.org/~seli/memory/ .

 If you are sure your numbers are right, then the easiest option would be 
finding out what uses that memory.

PS: It is possible to get Exmap from home:/llunak:/mix repo, but it crashes on 
64bit for an unknown reason.

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