KDE 4.2.4: About As Stable as Windows 98....

animeresistance · 09-24-2009, 09:24 PM

The problem of KDE 4 (general versions) is that is consumes memory, the KDE version 3.5 it was real fast, real estable and it consumed little memory. XFCe will be my choice for now :1 hope KDE team will revive the glory of the past 3.5 version.

~sHyLoCk~ · 09-24-2009, 09:33 PM

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Originally Posted by animeresistance

The problem of KDE 4 (general versions) is that is consumes memory, the KDE version 3.5 it was real fast, real estable and it consumed little memory. XFCe will be my choice for now :1 hope KDE team will revive the glory of the past 3.5 version.

It doesn't consume much memory for me, but yeah depends on what app you are running.

egregor · 09-25-2009, 06:45 AM

Conky says ~+270mb whe the pc is recently restarted and with KDE4. So, really, it is not so much memory. One thing I don't like is the delay to show the tray icons and volume control. Although my system is some years dated I wouldn't not expect this.

Woodsman · 09-25-2009, 07:06 PM

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Woodsman, try disabling nepomuk... That seems to be a huge consumer of resources and known to slow KDE4 down drastically on many machines.

Been there done that.

I even ran chmod -x /usr/bin/nepomuk*.

cwizardone · 09-25-2009, 07:32 PM

I really don't know the "why," but after disabling akonadi, strigi, and nepomuk (where do they get these names

) there has been a definite improvement in performance.

vik · 09-25-2009, 07:53 PM

Like I said before, it's running pretty well for me with some very minor bugs. Are you still getting the X server lockups?

~sHyLoCk~ · 09-25-2009, 08:48 PM

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Originally Posted by cwizardone

I really don't know the "why," but after disabling akonadi, strigi, and nepomuk (where do they get these names

) there has been a definite improvement in performance.

Can you please mark this thread as solved now? Not to mention the topic subject is pretty disturbing.

H_TeXMeX_H · 09-26-2009, 06:33 AM

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Originally Posted by ~sHyLoCk~

Can you please mark this thread as solved now? Not to mention the topic subject is pretty disturbing.

I agree ... I don't see what Slackware has to do with Window$ 98. Maybe KDE but not Slackware.

cwizardone · 09-26-2009, 10:43 AM

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Originally Posted by ~sHyLoCk~

Can you please mark this thread as solved now? Not to mention the topic subject is pretty disturbing.

Nope.
Having to disable 3 of the "new & advanced features" of KDE 4.xx is hardly a proper solution.
However, to appease those "Oh, so sensitive" among you that can't bear to hear anything that could remotely be considered a negative comment about Slackware, I did change the topic title.
You might check the very first sentence in the first post of this topic.
Sheesh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

cwizardone · 09-26-2009, 10:58 AM

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Originally Posted by vik

,,,,Are you still getting the X server lockups?

No, since disabling akonadi, strigi, and nepomuk, there hasn't been a freeze or any video problems.... so far. Hardly a proper remedy, but I'll take it for now.

~sHyLoCk~ · 09-26-2009, 11:02 AM

EDIT: nvm, whatever.

hitest · 09-26-2009, 11:09 AM

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Originally Posted by cwizardone

Hardly a proper remedy, but I'll take it for now.

Good to hear you sorted out your lock-up issues. I think this is a valuable thread. I'm not running KDE atm, but, I may in the future...you never know.

mcnalu · 09-26-2009, 05:32 PM

Strigi was definitely gobbling resources on my system (process name nepomukservice iirc) taking 95%, 30% mem (300mb) and its index file under .kde is 1gb and growing...

vik · 09-27-2009, 11:33 AM

That's probably why it's working fine for me too. I have strigi and nepomuk disabled, although I have akonadi running so I can use Korganizer.

cwizardone · 09-30-2009, 01:29 PM

Update.
I've installed the KDE 4.3.1 packages from "vbatts" (Thank you) and all of the problems I was having with 4.2.4 have disappeared... so far.

It is a little early to tell, but things are looking good!