From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 357961387E8 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 20:54:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7534AE0921; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 20:54:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yh0-f50.google.com (mail-yh0-f50.google.com [209.85.213.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 05592E090F for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 20:54:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-yh0-f50.google.com with SMTP id v1so1103110yhn.9 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 13:54:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=qRJJhokB6nDsUYAFQIvxaaG+bg8Qhx5UiRUUzF+LX/A=; b=M3j2b2cbNRKLGt6yPxNfAYiYGzRescJo+qNa6Whu01WyLtzYjtaeRZZkGACTYXDIgO 8OOFKeE/XXxxuMW11WbPgdl7cfWlMjAsFvxx7T5vXNHilWu6w2kyqXxgZSErzCH0Nk1k E/w4qqrK5J5+WvPt772j5YWap1wpQIQ9fkJeWk1d6STggznYJbkkSVQEl8YpM7dJ/p4k MsWnJs8Qst9j+r77XYpY7WiSlwkMnp5rJLQzMAzDN9KU8bqLiN9/RKtwI6PpfZnaE7Mf qaH6WTqGLhxqsJ79lzES02fxrrQ9vIZwXHPP/5ET6kYhdzlHEH667MwUG5wElrv0NlJx HN3Q== X-Received: by 10.236.118.207 with SMTP id l55mr8509047yhh.178.1406753648571; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 13:54:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-95-27.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.95.27]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id m29sm5464185yhb.31.2014.07.30.13.54.07 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 30 Jul 2014 13:54:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <53D95B6F.2020703@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 15:54:07 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 SeaMonkey/2.26.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flags handling References: <20140729201652.GA14289@waltdnes.org> <20140730160224.29830c66@digimed.co.uk> <53D93323.1060300@googlemail.com> <20140730200549.02099352@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <53D94C04.10204@gmail.com> <53D95636.5010401@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <53D95636.5010401@googlemail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 313b963e-b6da-462b-a7f2-fed538115176 X-Archives-Hash: 3a6f7d6ac2e5cdc1b506871365752358 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > and maybe you did exactly the wrong thing. KDE is very modular and > reuses its modules as much as it can. Which also means: memory is only > used once. There were once a very good (in my not so humble opinion. > It think very highly of myself) comparism here: > http://ktown.kde.org/~seli/memory/ (url is dead btw) and if you > actually use kde apps in kde - memory consumption is lower than in > either gnome or 'leightweight' solutions like xfce or > windowmaker+stuff. > http://web.archive.org/web/20071229030604/http://ktown.kde.org/~seli/memory/desktop_benchmark.html The biggest thing for me, is just stuff I don't use or ever see me needing. At one point, can't recall version, KDE4 was a bit of a memory hog. It seems they have cleaned that up a lot since tho. Even on my old rig which had 3GBs of ram and KDE3, it wasn't to bad on memory. CPU wise tho, I'd hate to run KDE4 on my old rig. It is just to slow for KDE4. Dale :-) :-)