Desktop memory usage

[Lubos Lunak]

On Monday 11 September 2006 11:59, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> Hi
>
> Just one question: What makes you think that running applets out of process
> uses any significant amount of memory extra?

 My measurements. Mostly past ones, that is, but it was visible even in this 
one in Exmap. E.g. Klipper can be both an applet and a systray app and the 
latter is measurably more heavy.

> It is one of your "conclusions", but I see no evidence for it, and KDE also
> runs IO-slaves out-of-process.

 It's not processes per se that are heavy, it's all the setup they do when 
they're full KDE apps (which e.g. systray apps are). KIO slaves do much 
smaller setup (no X connection, no fonts, no UI styles, ...) and are 
therefore lighter.

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