Re: Performance tips updated

On Monday 11 of October 2004 18:51, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Monday 11 October 2004 16:04, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> >  Hello,
> >
> >  http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=Performance+Tips now has a draft
> > of the updated version of the performance tips. Comments or whatever are
> > welcome. Just in case there would be some people bored enough to check
> > spelling, formating and this kind of stuff, feel free to do so.
> >
> >  People willing to do any content changes, discuss it first here. Anybody
> > who changes content or does a rollback without asking first will be
> > spanked, turtured with a comfy chair, run over by a truck, fed to sharks,
> > and if they manage to survive, also shot. Just in case the person who
> > rolled back some of my changes last week without asking anybody is here,
> > be a wise guy and don't raise your hand.
>
> One suggestion: reducing the number of applications started when kde starts
> -additionally to the /opt/kde/share/autostart/ create a directory /opt/kde/
> share/dontautostart/ and move all desktop files you don't need from
> autostart/ to dontautostart/

 Approved :).  (= feel free to update the page).

>
> And another thought: konqys memory usage can grow quite high when browsing
> the web and having a lot of tabs open. Since free() doesn't give the memory
> back to the OS, the memory stays used even if you close all the tabs. So
> from time to time it helps to really terminate some konqy processes (as
> opposed to reusing preloaded ones).

 free() gives back, but only if it has a block that is large enough, which 
doesn't happen if the memory gets fragmented. And while Konqueror tries to 
check its memory usage, I don't know how to protect against it :(. I don't 
use tabs, so I can't confirm, but this makes sense. Will you update the page 
to suggest something to workaround this too?

-- 
Lubos Lunak
KDE developer
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