Performance tips updated

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Monday 11 October 2004 19:01, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> On Monday 11 of October 2004 18:51, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
...
> > One suggestion: reducing the number of applications started when kde
> > starts -additionally to the /opt/kde/share/autostart/ create a directory
> > /opt/kde/ share/dontautostart/ and move all desktop files you don't need
> > from autostart/ to dontautostart/
>
>  Approved :).  (= feel free to update the page).

How should I call /opt/kde/ ? $(KDEDIR) ?

> > And another thought: konqys memory usage can grow quite high when
> > browsing the web and having a lot of tabs open. Since free() doesn't give
> > the memory back to the OS, the memory stays used even if you close all
> > the tabs. So from time to time it helps to really terminate some konqy
> > processes (as opposed to reusing preloaded ones).
>
>  free() gives back, but only if it has a block that is large enough, which
> doesn't happen if the memory gets fragmented.

Really ? I'm no expert on this topic, but I thought I read somewhere that the 
process size never decreases.

Bye
Alex
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