On Thursday 06 March 2003 12:03 pm, Casper Gielen wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > KDE is using excesssive amounts of memory. Currently it uses over 800 mb > after boot. Many KDE programms hover around the 80 megabytes (virtual) > memory. After increasing my swapspace by a gigabyte I was able to get > through startup, which took me 15 minutes. This might be related by the > fontconfig problems have reported, but I have not had any trouble with that > so far. (I have fontconfig 2.1.90 installed). > When everthing is done loading, the system is usable. Some programms > (notably kopete & kmail) keep slowly growing, but this seems to be due to > "normal" leaks.
run fc-cache as root with kde not running and then login to kde and see if it still does uses up this much.
