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I've been using KDE 3.5 RC1 for a week now and I noticed that the artsd that is included with it is a memory hog. According to "top" it's using 14% of my memory. X only uses 5% and firefox uses 6 - 7%. What gives? Why is artsd using so much memory? I don't remember KDE 3.4 having this issue.
Well I changed the "auto suspend when idle for" setting from 60 seconds to 2 seconds and that has helped A LOT. Now it is using only about 6% of memory.
I know it's still in beta and I did search on the KDE forums first but I wanted to make sure that it wasn't a known issue before posting it there.
Well it's definitely not because it was RC1. I've since upgraded to KDE 3.5 stable and artsd was using up 32% of my memory!! Needless to say I went ahead and disabled the sound system. Bummer to, I was just getting used to the sounds when I opened/closed/minimized/maximized/etc a window.
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