Ram use

[n3mo]

I was using kubuntu for a week and then I alredy miss gnome and its
flexibility. KDE is nice , have good loking windows decoration, but it isn't
runing well ot 1gb of ram even.
Sorry about my bad English.

2009/6/21 Steve Reilly <sfreilly at roadrunner.com>

> Karl Larsen wrote:
> >     I was curious to determine if Kubuntu uses more RAM than Gnome.
> > Since I have both on my laptop in version 8.10 I decided to try to
> > measure this. I used top to get the data and I saved the part needed to
> > gedit which you can get on both kubuntu and gnome. I took data at 10
> > minutes after boot-up. Here is the data:
> >
> >
> > This what kumbutu has at 10 minutes after a boot-up
> >
> > top - 15:41:02 up 10 min,  2 users,  load average: 0.11, 0.20, 0.16
> > Tasks: 111 total,   3 running, 108 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> > Cpu(s):  2.0%us,  1.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 96.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.3%hi,  0.7%si,
> > 0.0%st
> > Mem:   2003384k total,   703040k used,  1300344k free,    18636k buffers
> > Swap:  4096564k total,        0k used,  4096564k free,   265856k cached
> >
> >
> > This is what Gnome has at 10 minutes after boot-up
> >
> > top - 15:54:00 up 10 min,  2 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.12, 0.12
> > Tasks: 113 total,   1 running, 112 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> > Cpu(s):  1.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 99.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,
> > 0.0%st
> > Mem:   2003384k total,   476996k used,  1526388k free,    16508k buffers
> > Swap:  4096564k total,        0k used,  4096564k free,   185312k cached
> >
> >
> >     Notice that it is 703040k and 476996k which shows that Gnome uses
> > 226044k less Ram.
> >
> > This is nearly half again as much as Gnome and .226Gb can be a lot if
> > you have just 1 GB of RAM.
> >
> >
> > 73 Karl
> >
> >
>
> kde has always been a memory hog, i gave it up in my suse days after the
> kde4 atrocity was released.  i understand it hasnt gotten much better
> over the years as you can already tell by your research.  its nice to
> look at, but not functional at all on lower end machines.  tried it once
> on this T42 with a gig of ram, and pent M 1.6ghz.  not a speed demon,
> but not a dog either, still broken, still has missing icons, etc, and
> was completely unusable. of course this isnt meant to bash any desktop,
> simply stating my experience, ymmv.
>
>
> steve
>
>
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