tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5833240877872020905.post7711863945737958176..comments2008-08-21T00:36:51.911-07:00Comments on Paul's blog: Finding bloat in KDE4Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05118763270998458090noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5833240877872020905.post-52250854042363183112008-08-21T00:36:00.000-07:002008-08-21T00:36:00.000-07:00KDE 4.1 still seems to be a memory hog.Plasma is s...KDE 4.1 still seems to be a memory hog.Plasma is showing 124m, konqueror is showing 170m and knotify is showing 100m virtual mem usage in top.<BR/><BR/>I run virtualbox guest that consumes about 600M, but runs fine in non-KDE4 environs. With bare KDE 4.1, no kopete, no Juk etc, the machine began to crawl and jerk.<BR/><BR/>Memory is cheap these days, but still.. :-)Ajayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07178257014421357183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5833240877872020905.post-80737924551181106842008-04-17T02:09:00.000-07:002008-04-17T02:09:00.000-07:00Phonon can be used with VLC as backend already, se...Phonon can be used with VLC as backend already, see<BR/>http://code.google.com/p/phonon-vlc-mplayer/<BR/>Additionally, with Qt 4.4 GStreamer will be supported as another backend afaik. Maybe you want to test the memory consumption of these?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5833240877872020905.post-90668317584325929442008-04-16T15:14:00.000-07:002008-04-16T15:14:00.000-07:00Excellent work! Please keep it up.Excellent work! Please keep it up.Ivo Anjohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14178706289228931450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5833240877872020905.post-48710312301576083262008-04-16T14:54:00.000-07:002008-04-16T14:54:00.000-07:00Xine allocates a bunch of memory for video playbac...Xine allocates a bunch of memory for video playback, even if it doesnt do any video playback. This should be fixed in an upcoming release. For now, if you use gstreamer backend for phonon you don't see this problem.Leo Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02951281972056927807noreply@blogger.com