konqy preloading kills performance

[Koos Vriezen]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 07:24:36PM +0100, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> 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.

Wouldn't it make more sense to vote for fixing those memory leaks (and
weren't those fixed for 3.3 already)?

Koos