konqy preloading kills performance

[Frans Englich]

On Monday 13 December 2004 18:41, George Staikos wrote:
> On Monday 13 December 2004 13:24, 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.
>
>   Why not just disable it in KControl?

To users who isn't interested in computers -- the vast majority -- the memory 
concept doesn't exist, and they can't do any qualified decisions in the 
matter. The machine should handle its memory itself without requiring user 
intervention to work properly, IMO. Also, it's not obvious that the 
configuration options is there.


Cheers,

		Frans