On Wednesday 07 of October 2009, Anthony Simonelli wrote:
My question is, are there additional things I can do to KDE to help save some RAM on the thin clients? Is there a way to tweak KDE to use simpler graphics such as turning off the glow when hovering over folders, or using wire-frame outlines when dragging windows; sort of like "reduced resources" in GNOME's GConf?
Run 'xrestop'. That will show you X resources usage for every client (=application), which I assume is what represents the major part of the RAM usage. I don't think turning off glow, outlines or similar things affects the RAM usage in any significant way, as that should only cost some CPU power. What could help would be avoiding some graphics altogether, such as turning off Plasma's desktop wallpaper. The color depth reduction you did should have helped too. One more thing that could have helped would be disabling Qt's automatic widget double-buffering, but AFAIK there's no simple way to turn it off and it's a question if it wouldn't cause some painting problems. -- 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+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org