KDE memory abnormalities

[Ben Scott]

On 11/5/06, Warren Luebkeman <warren at resara.com> wrote:
> The distribution is Debian Sarge, with a backported verison of KDE version
> 3.5.0, running kernel 2.6.17.11.  All four servers are using identical
> packages.

  Well, something must be different, or they'd behave identically.  :)
 The same builds were used on all the servers?  What about the
hardware?  Any correlations there?

  I take it this is some kind of application server for LTSP, X
terminals, or the like.  (Why else would one run KDE on a server?)
Are all the X clients the same in terms of their hardware and software
configuration?

> shawnbe  12297  0.0  3.8 737008 160824 ?     S    Nov03   0:01 kicker
> michael  26999  0.0  0.3 30024 16420 ?       S    Nov03   0:02 kicker

  Hmmm.  And only on KDE stuff.  Hmmm.  Do you see this behavior on
the "kdeinit" process as well?

  Does "free" actually show more storage being used?

> Are there any tools I can use to get more information on what is going on?

  There are some knobs that control diagnostic output in
/etc/kde3/kdebugrc (or /opt/kde3/etc/ or whatever), but I've never
used them.

  You could always attack the problem with a debugger, but KDE's a
big, complicated software system.  That's more than my skills can
advise on.  Others here might be able to offer insight in this
department.

-- Ben