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[RealNC]

Well, actually, you're just counting the cache :P.

295 is the amount of allocated RAM *without* cache. That's what is generally understood as memory consumption. But even *with* cache, the 565MB I get here are still far away from the 1.3GB on Ubuntu.

[kokoko3k]

295 is just without buffers+pagecache, but it still includes slab cache.

#as root:
sync && echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches && free

Will give you the right value.

Side note: 64bit gives an average of 20% more.

[Luke_Wolf]

All of those memory consumption figures are leaving me asking "Just what Ubuntu?" All of those memory values are much much higher than I've seen in Fedora, openSUSE and Slackware of the DEs I've played around with.

[halfmanhalfamazing]

has sped up considerably with the 4.9 release. Martin Graesslin has been successful with his personal goal of making the login speed faster, and I hope he keeps it up.

http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blo...p-performance/

IMHO, the login speed of KDE is it's last big problem. Sure, there are plenty of new features that could/should be added, but none nearly as important. And as to KDE memory usage, when your software does more and has more features built in, the realistic effect is that more memory gets used. Though this 1.4GB of memory usage figure is crazy. That's a Kubuntu problem, not a KDE problem. My usage is just under 500MB.

Those of you who complain about bugs need to file bug reports. They do get fixed. If yours aren't getting fixed, you need to offer more usable information. This is a PEBKAC issue, not a KDE issue.

[RealNC]

295 is just without buffers+pagecache, but it still includes slab cache.

#as root:
sync && echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches && free

Will give you the right value.

Side note: 64bit gives an average of 20% more.

In that case, I get:

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:         16003        386      15616          0          0         95
-/+ buffers/cache:        290      15712
Swap:        24576          0      24576

I'm on 64-bit of course.

[halfmanhalfamazing]

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/...e/ch-abrt.html

Bug reports should be a breeze for anybody.

If your distribution doesn't have something like this(and this is not anything new) then what you need to do is go to http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-options#desktops

Complaining about bugs is annoying and a waste of time. Get a distribution that makes this easy and useful. Ubuntu also has such a feature, Apport. In addition, GNOME has a program called Bug Buddy, and KDE has it's program, Dr. Konqi.



Here's Apport:

[bug77]

has sped up considerably with the 4.9 release. Martin Graesslin has been successful with his personal goal of making the login speed faster, and I hope he keeps it up.

http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blo...p-performance/

Ha, I was wondering why he used KDE 4.8.x in Oct '12.

[Hamish Wilson]

You want some numbers? Have some numbers!

Some rather unscientific tests completed by launching various DEs from first start-up on an updated Fedora 16 system:

Blackbox 0.70.1:


LXDE 0.5.5:


Xfce 4.8:


Note that pnmixer is automatically launched for me upon logging into either LXDE or Xfce, and so is Desurium, although in both instances I closed it before checking the memory usage.

[Druedain]

KDE is way too slow for my tastes and the keverything drives me nuts. Yes, I know, Gnome does this to an extend too but not for everything. This is the same reason I despise Apple's naming scheme. iPhone, iPod, iPad, iPhail, iTunes, iCloud and iEverything.

Dolphin, Okular, Calligra, Amarok, Gwenview, digiKam (?), Marble, Ark…

[TheBlackCat]

KDE is way too slow for my tastes and the keverything drives me nuts. Yes, I know, Gnome does this to an extend too but not for everything.

Neither has KDE for about 5 years now. In fact pretty much nothing new in KDE 4 uses the scheme. Plasma, solid, phonon, dolphin, activities, nepomuk, strigi, akonadi, okular, marble, reqkonq, etc. Several games had to be renamed for trademark reasons, and they all removed the k__ prefix. KOffice was renamed to Calligra (I know, technically it was a split but pretty much everyone went with Calligra and KOffice appears to be dead). The use of the k_ prefix is now strongly discouraged for new KDE projects.