Re: Performance tips updated

Waldo Bastian <[email protected]> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 13:54:33 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.kde.devel.optimize
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Monday 11 October 2004 19:01, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> > 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 :(. 

On Linux you could maybe check VmRSS?

Cheers,
Waldo
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