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> Its true: I ran KDE3 on my athlon-tbird 750 MHz with 64M RAM without problems.<br>
> And I am running it also on a 233MHz laptop with 96M RAM. As long as you don't <br>
> multitask too many things, it's quite acceptable<br>
> --> I am using KDE because of KDevelop and it's integrated suite of network <br>
> and PIM utilities<br>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Since I am the guy who caused this discussion I would like to share my personal (over 10 years) experience with memory usage of Sun systems and finally ask for a reason.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I never experienced memory shortages on our Sun systems running only a desktop since the days of SPARCstation 1 with 16 MB RAM and about 45 MB swap (not counting the cases when sombody was trying to start a whole chip simulation on his desktop mashine ;-).</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">For 4 years, my colleagues work on Ultra10 / Sun BLade 100 with 512 MB RAM and 1 GB swap ... and never problems with memory. Some of them open up to 10 desktops with dozens of terminals, xemacs and other stuff. They criticized the Xserver because they can not open more than about 80 windows at a time due to a resource limitation inside of X but they never run into memory problems under KDE2 (gcc version).</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Now I installed KDE3 from Stefan on my mashine to try it out and only the KDE3 desktop with some terminals and other desktop tools (not talking about MATLAB or a VHDL simulator, which is quit common to use for smaller tasks on our desktops here as well) let crash my Sun due to a shortage of memory !!!!</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I do not have a explanation for the tremendious increase in RAM usage. And this has been the main reason for me not to start with a rollout of the otherwise stable KDE3 release from Stefan because I will have to repartition / reinstall all my Sun desktops.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Any root cause explanation of this effect is very welcome and I would be very happy if the myth about KDE3 on 64MB RAM becomes a reality ;-) </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Just my experience, not a flame.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Michael</font>
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