Berndt Josef Wulf wrote:
> 
> After terminating KDE and running XWindows using the twm windows manager
> things started to improve dramatically. System load is now < .20
> when idle - see below.
> 
> load averages:  0.18,  0.20,  0.18                            07:59:20
> 34 processes:  1 running, 33 sleeping
> CPU:  0.5% user,  0.0% nice,  0.5% system,  0.0% interrupt, 99.0% idle
> Memory: 15M Act 944K Inact 296K Wired 9176K Free 4K Swap 97M Swap free
> 
> I still don't know what causes KDE to place such a high load onto the
> system and my only hope is that this may improve on next release of
> KDE.
> 

I'm running kde-1.1.1 under 1.3.2: kde seems no different than when I was
running the pre 1.0 release. (the address book code for kdebase doesn't
assemble with the 1.3.x assembler, but otherwise it's a stock kdebase 
install - compiled by hand, not a package).

Xserver version is:

XFree86 Version 3.3.3 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300)
Release Date: November 13 1998

SVGA server driving a Riva TNT chipset.

With just the screen saver active, my load is:

 8:49AM  up 2 days, 21:54, 2 users, load averages: 0.32, 0.38, 0.35

What in KDE was getting the lion's share of the time/memory?

	- Scott (srp@zgi.com)