KDE 3 Footprint

[Terry]

Did you install KDE3 via precompiled binaries or did you compile it
yourself?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jannik Lindquist" <janniklindquist at moseand.com>
To: <kde at mail.kde.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 10:34 AM
Subject: Re: [kde] KDE 3 Footprint


> Hello,
>
> I am on a Toshiba Laptop - 475 Mhz and 160 MB. I switched from Windows
> XP to Linux with KDE 3.0 a mont ago - and have fought a tough battle
> trying to make KDE run without draining my systemressources. Before I
> stripped all fancy graphics from KDE, I had at least one freeze a day
> and I still see a lot of disturbed graphics. Big apps renowned for their
> demands on systemressources - such as OpenOffice and Mozilla - runs
> beautifully on my system - whereas Konqueror and KMail running together
> are almost sure to cause some kind of problem.
>
> --
> Jannik Lindquist
>
>
> Greg Walker wrote:
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > The lowest spec machine I got kde 3.0 running (well, installed on) is a
P200
> > with 64Mb of RAM. I did this just for the hell of it.
> >
> > It runs really well on a Celeron 900Mhz with 512Mb
> >
> > Greg
> >
> >
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Terry [mailto:lawnman59 at netzero.net]
> >>Sent: 13 June 2002 13:45
> >>To: kde at mail.kde.org
> >>Subject: Re: [kde] KDE 3 Footprint
> >>
> >>
> >>A good rule of thumb. . .KDE3 basically requires the same
> >>resources as Windows 2000.  Meaning at least 128 megs RAM
> >>(256 is better) and a 500 mhz or better processor.  A good
> >>videocard with 32 megs RAM helps to, with all the eye-candy ;
> >>)  Adding more RAM to your machine will help with the disk thrashing.
> >>
> >>----- Original Message -----
> >>From: "Julio Gazquez" <shulai at ciudad.com.ar>
> >>To: <kde at mail.kde.org>
> >>Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 7:01 AM
> >>Subject: [kde] KDE 3 Footprint
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>I jumped to KDE 3.0.1 from KDE 2.1.2. At first sight, it
> >>performs equally well, but as I started using it, I found a
> >>noticeable increasing in memory consumption. As it's an old
> >>computer with little memory (64MB) it is an issue, as it is
> >>actually trashing.
> >>
> >>So, there is a real, important growing in requirements, there
> >>are some important memory leaks out there (according top,
> >>Konqui eats up to 50% of used memory, and keeps raising), or
> >>I already was too close to the trashing theresold, and just
> >>crossed it?
> >>
> >>--
> >>--------------------------------
> >>Julio César Gázquez
> >>Universidad Tecnológica Nacional
> >>Facultad Regional Rosario
> >>
> >>
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