I use KDE SC 4.6 on a x86-64 Archlinux and noticed that KPat uses about 200 MB of memory. Now, I know it uses SVG and I like the animations very much, but it seems to me that the used memory is a bit more, given that plasma-desktop uses about 100 MB with all it's plasmoids and data engines. Does anyone else experience this? Is this a bug and how can the memory consumption be decreased?

after opening Kpat and starting a bunch of different games I'm seeing 70,000K memory and 23,000k shared, if I just run freecell at open memory is .

couple thoughts: could your memory consumption be caused by the choice of card deck or background and does memory usage increase over time as the game in played

google01103 wrote:after opening Kpat and starting a bunch of different games I'm seeing 70K memory and 23k shared, if I just run freecell at open memory is 7k.

couple thoughts: could your memory consumption be caused by the choice of card deck or background and does memory usage increase over time as the game in played

70K!!! Wow! You are not talking about used pixmap memory or...? What I meant is the heap memory allocated by the process as shown by ksysguard.

On the other hand, you are right that different themes have significant memory impact - I switched the background theme to plain green and now kpat consumes about 40 MB. Further, I switched the Qt graphics system from raster to native (I think that means that it uses XRender?) and the memory dropped further and xrestop shows that kpat uses pixmaps (which I suppose is good ). Anyway, thanks for the hints - I learned a little bit today

Cheers,
Dimitar

Uhm, just for the sake of completeness: 8,000 is actually 8000 and not 8.0 in US localisation Nontheless, 8 MB is quite low. Thanks again.

maybe you're onto something, after leaving the app open and playing a bunch of hands the ram usage is164,000K as shown in system monitor

There could be potentially a memory leak in KPat. If the memory usage after playing each hand continues to increase, then it might be a good idea to file a bug report.

bug report filed https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=274138