Ram use

[Barry Pohlman]

Another thing to consider is the programs you use most. KDE based 
programs use the QT libraries and Gnome is based on the GTK+ libraries. 
It may be that Kubuntu loads the GTK+ libraries by defaults but QT 
libraries are not loaded in Gnome. I may just be speaking non-sense but 
and idea of where some of the discrepancy may be located.......

I know when I got to install some programs via apt-get I have to get all 
the QT libraries that support it. Just a thought





Sandy Harris wrote:
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>
> On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 6:13 AM, Karl Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:klarsen1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>        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. ...
>
>
> Why not Xubuntu? That seems the obvious choice if you are concerned
> about memory use.
>
> Heres my 4 gig machine several days after the last reboot, with as
> usual both Firefox & Open Office running.
>
> Tasks: 121 total,   1 running, 120 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> Cpu(s): 18.5%us,  0.3%sy,  0.0%ni, 81.1%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  
> 0.0%si,  0.0%st
> Mem:   3086844k total,  1726468k used,  1360376k free,   188388k buffers
> Swap:     8024k total,        0k used,     8024k free,   603820k cached
>
>
>
> -- 
> Sandy Harris,
> Quanzhou, Fujian, China