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Hey, why KDE uses so much memory??

Vit!

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Monday, May 17th 2004, 9:27am

Hey, why KDE uses so much memory??

Simple test: I started several KDE-based apps and several GTK-based apps. What I see in System Guard:

Noatun - VmSize=39Mb, VmRss=24Mb right after start
Gimp - VmSize=20Mb, VmRss=16Mb before loading image
Gimp - VmSize=27Mb, VmRss=23Mb after loading image
XMMS - 30Mb, 5Mb
Juk - 30Mb, 16Mb

Is simple audio player Noatun needs more memory then Gimp for example? So I will always use XMMS instead of it.
KDE is best desktop now by its usability and features, but so much memory usage isn't so good. Or I don't understand something?

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Monday, May 17th 2004, 8:31pm

You cannot compare a stand-alone application with an application that uses desktop libraries, i.e. an application which just uses GTK and an application which uses KDElibs

Compare GTK and Qt applications or GNOME and KDE applications.

KDE does use quite some memory, but most of it is shared between its applications, so you have some kind of base consumption and a per-application addition.
The base conumption almost stays at the same value even if more than one user runs KDE on the same machine at the same time.

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