Desktop memory usage

[Biju Chacko]

Hi,

Interesting article, especially in the context of the recent discussion on  
panel plugins.

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http://ktown.kde.org/~seli/memory/

This was actually supposed to be a follow-up to my tests of startup  
performance of various desktop environments, primarily KDE of course :).  
In fact I even did most of the benchmarks some time after the startup  
ones, but, alas, I'm much better at writing things that computers are  
supposed to read than at writing things that people will read :-/ (some  
volunteer to write good user documentation for KWin's window specific  
settings, BTW ;) ?) I even meant to make a somewhat more extensive  
analysis of the numbers, but having never found time to write that, I  
decided I should publish at least a shorter variant with all the numbers  
and some conclusions. You can do your own analyses of the numbers if you  
will.

These memory benchmarks are meant to measure various cases of desktop  
configuration and compare KDE to some other desktop environments.  
Specifically, I compared against Xfce 4.2.2 (as shipped with SUSE Linux  
10.0) as the so-called lightweight desktop, WindowMaker 0.92.0 as a plain  
window manager and GNOME. GNOME, built using GARNOME, was originally  
version 2.12.2, later redoing it with 2.14.0 (without actually measuring  
noticeable difference in these specific cases, despite 2.14 release notes  
claiming performance improvements). As I no longer have the same setup I  
cannot redo it with the very recent 2.16 unfortunately. Simply consider  
this to be a bit old. The others are for comparison anyway :). KDE itself  
was KDE 3.5.2 with my performance patches, all of which are already  
upstream by now.

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