On Apr 8, 2005 7:37 PM, Shae Tan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am basically a GUI person. Lately, I observed that desktop > environments are using too much memory. For example, my KDE reveals in > "top": > > Mem: 516036k total, 512348k used, 3688k free, 183688k buffers > Swap: 1060248k total, 916k used, 1059332k free, 98500k cached > > I want to know what PLUG members are using for their desktops and how > they manage the memory used by these GUIs. Do you recommend that I buy > another 512mb of RAM? > > This is my system: Linux localhost 2.6.8.1-24mdk AMD Athlon(tm) > [XP2200] prosussor GNU/Linux
By default, a protected-memory OS would "gulp" the entire memory space unto itself, then use that memory for allocation with your userland programs. But yeah, modern-day desktop environments do take a lot of memory, considering what they do these days (that you can't do in the early days). -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List plug@lists.q-linux.com (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
