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Same, I did an install with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and the latest KDE desktop environment with all optional packages and goodies, and after a fresh boot into KDE with Konsole opened, the RAM consumption was from 580MB to under 760MB, similar to XFCE.

I don't know how the author got those huge numbers but I fell like something is off with his FreeBSD installation/configuration and is skewing the results.

I'd take those results with a huge boulder of salt.

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I am pretty sure is numbers are skewed by summing RES which include for each process the shared memory. So he is basically summing things that shouldn't be summed.

This was my first thought as well. If each KDE process loads a few K libs those will add up really quick.

You are checking with htop right?

Nope, I used top, but it's basically the same

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Exactly what i meant ;)

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