konqy preloading kills performance

[Alexander Neundorf]

Hi,

I am running KDE 3.2 on a PIII/450 MHz with 128 MB RAM.
Keeping konqy instances preloaded kills the performance on this box. Reason: 
if I have a konqy with several tabs and visited a bunch of pages, konqy grows 
to more than 50 MB in RAM ( or at least quite big), which causes the box to 
swap. Now closing konqy doesn't help, since konqy remains alive and doesn't 
free its memory. So I had to disable the preloading to get the box working at 
reasonable speed again.
So IMHO preloading konqy slows the system on slow (ok, low memory) systems 
down, on fast systems it is already fast. And the preloading adds quite some 
opportunities for bugs (e.g. profiles)
So I'd vote for removing the preloading feature again.

Bye
Alex
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