Ram use

[Karl F. Larsen]

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Barry Pohlman wrote:
> Another thing to consider is the programs you use most. KDE based 
> programs use the QT libraries and Gnome is based on the GTK+ libraries. 
> It may be that Kubuntu loads the GTK+ libraries by defaults but QT 
> libraries are not loaded in Gnome. I may just be speaking non-sense but 
> and idea of where some of the discrepancy may be located.......
> 
> I know when I got to install some programs via apt-get I have to get all 
> the QT libraries that support it. Just a thought
> 
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	I have not tried to explain why kubuntu uses more ram. I am not aware
of the QT and GTK+ libraries. But calling both libraries into RAM would
explain the more RAM use.


73 Karl


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> Sandy Harris wrote:
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>> On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 6:13 AM, Karl Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:klarsen1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>        I was curious to determine if Kubuntu uses more RAM than Gnome.
>>     Since I have both on my laptop in version 8.10 I decided to try to
>>     measure this. ...
>>
>>
>> Why not Xubuntu? That seems the obvious choice if you are concerned
>> about memory use.


	I am not concerned about memory use.
>>
>> Heres my 4 gig machine several days after the last reboot, with as
>> usual both Firefox & Open Office running.
>>
>> Tasks: 121 total,   1 running, 120 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
>> Cpu(s): 18.5%us,  0.3%sy,  0.0%ni, 81.1%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  
>> 0.0%si,  0.0%st
>> Mem:   3086844k total,  1726468k used,  1360376k free,   188388k buffers
>> Swap:     8024k total,        0k used,     8024k free,   603820k cached
>>
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>>
>> -- 
>> Sandy Harris,
>> Quanzhou, Fujian, China
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