kglobalaccel memory usage

[JD]

  On 10/13/2010 03:55 PM, Clemens Eisserer wrote:
>>> Yehiel, what is the RSS (Resident Set Size) for kglobalaccel ?
>>>
>>> PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>>> 2480 djyb      20   0  183m 127m 4048 S  0.0 12.7   0:49.64 kglobalaccel
>>>
>>> according to top, 127m, I guess that 127MB
> WoW, sounds to me way too much for such a simple task, although I have
> to add that KDE4's promise "thanks to cleanup and modularization it
> will use less resources" is the most broken promise ^^
>
> You might have a look at bugs.kde.org and file an appropriate entry if
> you don't find one.
>
> Another good idea if you can invest some time is to use valgrind to
> find out where all that memory is spentö
>
> - Clemens

"Firgetaboutit" :)
All KDE and GTK UI's are memory hogs  AFAIAC.
There is no way around it. It is what it is.
When you have such multilayer applications, you
end  up having to link to many libs
with funcs that malloc memory (some more than others)
to do their work, you end up with a high mem usage.