Speeding up KDE -- More Help Needed

[Brendan]

On Tuesday 17 July 2007, Robert Tilley wrote:
> Many of the tips on cleaning up memory were extremely helpful.
>
> My Dell Dimension 2350 box has 512 MB.  KDE 3.5.6, KInfoCenter shows about
> 6.24 megs free at the moment.  Open apps are:  Konsole (1 tab), a dozen
> Knotes, KInfoCenter (of course), Kate (14 files open), Konqueror (10 tabs),
> Firefox (4 tabs open).
>
> Closing Konqueror immediately freed about 45 MB.  Running Konqueror is
> almost required for validation of web page design.
>
> It's been mentioned that KDE 3.5.6 is worse for memory handling.  Perhaps I
> should downgrade to Dapper?  My first choice would be to avoid buying
> another half-meg memory.

Are you serious? Jeez man, you make no sense. Downgrading is on the table, but 
not buying some cheap memory? Why not upgrade to 3.5.7?