Comment 4 for bug 747719

Unfortunately, this bug has not been fixed by the latest KDE uploads (4.6.2).

I know the virtual memory size is not really significant per se, but look at it in relation to the swap usage... At the time this snapshot was copied from "top", kmail and kopete were the only running "real" KDE applications, in addition to several desktop plasmoids. (Analog clock, xeyes, comic viewer, music title viewer, notes, char selector and calendar.)

KDE 4.4 in Karmic used *much* less memory, it was much less swapping - with such few applications like kmail and kopete it was hardly swapping at all...

Mem: 2047252k total, 1539664k used, 507588k free, 29480k buffers
Swap: 1992024k total, 1382948k used, 609076k free, 769552k cached

  PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
 2675 gunter 20 0 1311m 217m 10m S 0 10.9 1:14.81 kded4
18065 gunter 20 0 861m 112m 32m S 0 5.6 0:35.20 kmail
 3036 gunter 20 0 761m 38m 7480 S 0 1.9 0:02.17 knotify4
 3037 gunter 20 0 1133m 37m 13m S 3 1.9 12:07.61 plasma-desktop
18069 gunter 20 0 322m 29m 6628 S 0 1.5 0:00.66 kio_imap4
 3217 gunter 20 0 720m 24m 13m S 0 1.2 0:27.00 kopete
 3141 gunter 20 0 844m 24m 10m S 0 1.2 0:14.05 krunner