Re: Rate computer and adapt settings accordingly: plasma, kwin, dolphin etc.

Jos Poortvliet wrote:

> Oh boy, do I know what  you're talking about....

Well, I have sat here and watched it happen on my 400MHz
K6-III, and it
isn't pretty. 

Since them I have updated the Kernel and I always have the
current 
KDE-3.5 BRANCH and the problem has improved.

> Yes, I think having a measure, seeing how full ram is,
and tuning 
> some things accordingly would be nice.

If you mean physical memory, that isn't going to help; *NIX
always fills 
physical memory if you run it long enough.  But if you mean
total virtual memory, then yes it might help.  However, if
you have a
lot of swap space, having some of it filled up with stuff
that isn't 
currently being used has little, if any, effect on
performance.  So, as 
I said, it is when the VM swapping and swap management
starts 
interfering with what you are running, that is when you have
a problem.

> But are apps capable of lowering their ram usage on
run-time? And how
> much work would it be? And how much diff would it
make?

I don't know if you can kill eye candy on the fly, but I
think that that 
is the idea here.  When I have a bog-down, I go through
KSystemGuard and 
kill all the NS plugins, and that does work.  I figured that
this was a 
problem that could be dealt with so I lowered the priority
of NS 
plugins.  If it were possible to set the priority of eye
candy stuff 
(renice them on the fly), this might also work.

-- 
JRT
 
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