On Sunday 17 May 2009 12:53:16 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?

Thanks!

-Anshul

To back that up somewhat, on my system (also with 1 GB RAM but with NVIDIA graphics), the memory usage at startup is also ~280-300 MB. Individual processes eat up system resources in the following way:- 1. plasma ~ 30-40 MB (which easily shoots up to ~60 MB when I change a wallpaper or the plasma theme or add a few widgets, etc.) 2. krunner ~ 25 MB 3. kwin ~ 25 MB 4. about 2 or 3 instances of knotify with ~ 10-15 MB each 5. Xorg ~ 50 - 70 MB (but this may be due to NVIDIA's problems) I am using KDE 4.2.3 (KDE/42 repository) with Qt 4.5.1 too, and it looks like these core KDE4 processes (1-4) are using way more memory than what used to be in openSUSE 11.0 (or 11.1 with 4.1.3), does it not? -- Atri -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org