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. -- Lubos Lunak KDE developer -------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. e-mail: l.lunak@suse.cz , l.lunak@kde.org Lihovarska 1060/12 tel: +420 284 084 672 190 00 Prague 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org