25 Mar
2006
25 Mar
'06
2:31 p.m.
On Saturday 25 March 2006 05:08 pm, Don Y wrote:
KDE seems to be the one area of the stuff I run here that gives me a bit of
trouble...
Maybe it's because I'm running several machines here that never get turned
off. I seldom log off, either. And on this one box (that I'm typing on) I
have continuing increase of swap used, until it gets to the point where
response starts to suffer. Depending on what I'm doing, this can take a few
days, or it can take a few weeks. Running a lot of tasks or a lot of tabs
in the Firefox browser seems to make it worse quicker.
Can you say memory leak? Thought so...
But I don't have to reboot or shut the machine down or anything like that to
fix it, just log out of KDE and go back in again. Hm, I just looked and
I'm currently up over 207M of swap used, but if I log out of here and log
back in with exactly the same mix of applications open it'll be sitting there
at 3-5M of swap used.
I hope they get it fixed sometime soon...
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
NetBSD (I
installed 2.1 to be safe) is the way I remember
Unix--no-nonsense and no-frills. The kernel compiled with what I wanted
on the first try. I haven't installed KDE yet, but it looks to be pretty
straightforward.
I think you will find the "packages" to be of more dubious quality
than the core OS features. There seems to be much less discipline
there. And, I have found people don't often understand what they
are tinkering with as they patch the code -- "it compiled without
any errors, so it MUST be OK, right??" :<