why does KDE use a lot of Memory??

[YuChan Park]

Hello Kders.. :)

My system is running on KDE 3.4.0 and Fedora 3.

KDE isn't slow but obtain a lot of system memory.

Need KDE a huge memory for running?

arch: i386 ( proscott 630, 3.0GHz)
Memory: 1024M, swap: 2048M
VGA: Gforce 6600-128M

My top information as blow.
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  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
27337 root      15   0  146m 101m  21m S  0.0 10.0  16:31.71 kopete
 4252 root      15   0  186m  56m 4308 S  0.0  5.6 187:43.61 X
24173 root      16   0 67420  37m  20m S  0.0  3.7   0:19.41 konqueror
 4801 root      16   0 62188  34m  16m S  0.0  3.4  11:17.92 konsole
31462 root      15   0  114m  33m  17m S  0.0  3.3   0:04.95 firefox-bin
 4779 root      15   0 59988  32m  17m S  0.0  3.2   6:02.40 kicker
 4777 root      16   0 51872  30m  16m S  0.0  3.0   0:27.40 kdesktop
 4755 root      15   0 67620  28m  14m S  0.0  2.8   2:30.27 kded
 4785 root      25  10 51136  26m  11m S  0.0  2.6   1:11.78 rhn-applet-gui
15905 root      15   0 45908  26m  12m S  0.0  2.6   2:43.92 kmix
 4775 root      16   0 44972  26m  12m S  0.0  2.6   0:48.09 kwin
 5108 root      16   0 45116  25m  12m S  0.0  2.5   0:02.76 kio_uiserver
 4875 root      15   0 38724  19m  11m S  0.0  2.0   1:47.05 knotify
 4772 root      16   0 31420  16m 9924 S  0.0  1.7   0:01.56 ksmserver
 4769 root      16   0 31404  16m 9868 S  0.0  1.6   0:01.07 kaccess
24741 root      16   0 32596  16m 9472 S  0.0  1.6   0:00.06 kio_file
 4747 root      16   0 31040  15m 8712 S  0.0  1.5   0:01.32 kdeinit

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