konqy preloading kills performance

[Allan Sandfeld Jensen]

On Monday 13 December 2004 19:24, 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.
>
Sounds like a kernel problem. Preloading shouldn't kill performance much, as 
soon as konqueror is unused for a while, the kernel will swap it out and it 
no longer has an impact on the remaining performance of the machine.

If there is a way to detect memory presure we could ofcourse skip preload on 
low memory machines, but I am not sure how to do it. 

I disagree that it doesnt help on faster machines. It does.

`Allan