On Sunday 04 March 2012 02:36:51 Tiago Marques wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 10:49 AM, /dev/ammo42
<mickeytintincolle@...>wrote:
> > On Sat, 3 Mar 2012 02:36:00 +0000
> >
> > Tiago Marques <tiagomnm@...> wrote:
> > > Raspberry Pi is the kind of device that can work reasonably with
> > > Trinity but not KDE4. Last time I checked I had Trinity running in
> > > 80MB for RAM while KDE4 was having trouble fitting in 600MB. For
> > > people who asked about reasons to keep KDE3 alive in Trinity, I would
> > > point to a working testbed, if we ever get to assemble one.
> >
> > With a sane configuration KDE SC 4 is not heavy. On my 32-bit Slackware
> > 13.1, I had 200M used by the entire system. After firing up KDE4 from
> > another console with another user on another X server, I had 340M used,
> > still by the entire system. The Raspberry Pi having a good GPU and 256M
> > of RAM, I think KDE SC 4 can run without problem on it.
>
> Not my experience in ANY way. Not even with Nepomuk and other "bloat
> disabled". Still, 200MB is a huge amount, you won't be able to run almost
> anything else and you won't have 256MB available either, so... tough.
http://www.linuxatemyram.com/
You cannot deduce from the amount of RAM used the amount of RAM needed. This
is extremely important for KDE based environments. KDE has a very strong I/O
usage at startup which results in an initial high "RAM usage", but does not
say anything about whether that amount of RAM is actually needed or used. On
my system currently only 280 MB of RAM of my 8 GB of RAM are free.
Long story short: getting correct values for RAM usage on Linux is non-
trivial. I am not able to say how much RAM is really used, but at least I know
that it is non-trivial to get this numbers.
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