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Subject: Re: KDE 3.5.0 seems much chubbier than 3.4.2
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>> Hmm, not sure it was unbounded, but it was certainly consuming a lot of
>> extra memory. Note that with the debugging off top shows it as..
>>   PID USERNAME   THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU COMMAND
>> 19876 root         1 100    0   315M   136M select  18:16 13.67% Xorg
> 
> Things still seem to be using more memory than I would expect.. Certainly my 
> laptop is swapping more than I expect :(
> 
> Is there a simple way to revert to the old malloc? Just back out malloc.c?
> I'd go back to KDE 3.4.2 but that is a lot more complex :)

been there.  it was the recent firefox.

randy