KDE4 slow

[Iñaki Baz Castillo]

2009/7/14 Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet at gmail.com>:
>> Disabling desktop effects I feel no difference at all. In fact, the
>> only thin going fluid in my KDE4 are the desktops effects (nvidia
>> driver).
>
> It's clearly memory, then. You might find a 100 stale KIO processes
> running, and a huge memory usage in plasma and probably konsole and
> konqi too?!? I know these have always been bad for me, at least at
> home (2 weeks ago, KDE svn).
>
> I've heard things about fixes, and it is indeed getting better - I
> have 3 gb ram, and it used to fill up every now and then (yes, crazy).
> Now it's often around 1-1.5 gb. I run a lot of stuff simultaniously so
> I guess that is to be expected but I still would love to see it go
> down to 500 or something...

It's true that I have just 1 GB RAM. However, previously I run the
same applications (an same configuration) or even much more in KDE3
and it run really fine.
-- 
Iñaki Baz Castillo
<ibc at aliax.net>