Here's the whole thing as a blog post, with the Konsole info added.

https://www.gilesorr.com/blog/linux-terminal-memory-usage.html

On Wed, 6 May 2026 at 01:02, Ron via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org> wrote:
Giles Orr via Talk wrote on 2026-05-05 18:10:
- I expected `gnome-terminal`'s memory usage to be in line with KDE's `ptyxis`, but `gnome-terminal` shows remarkably well in this test

Would love to see how KDE's `konsole` compares - this is a very interesting test result.

(I'm also likely to post this on my blog.)

If you do, can you add in konsole?


Thanks for this info Giles!

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