GNOME == bloatware?

[Steve Juranich <sjuranic@ssli-mail.ee.washington.edu>]

I'm sure I'm not the only one to notice this, as I'm running a stock 
sid box.  But I've got a machine with 256Mb ram, but GNOME is bringing 
this system to a crawl.  I open up the system monitor, and I see that 
the main offenders are X (65 Mb, totally expected), Galeon (40 MB, it 
didn't used to be this bad), and gnome-terminal (15 MB for a single 
instance! 11MB after I turn off all of the fancy stuff).

So I'm wondering if I've got some binaries that aren't optimized for my 
system somehow, or this is just the state of GNOME.  If so, I'm going 
to take a serious second look at ditching the whole 'desktop 
environment' altogether and go with something like IceWM.

I'm not trolling, I've got a serious issue here.  256 mb should be more 
than enough to run all of the junk I want to run without swapping.

Thanks.  for fl in *flames* ; do cat $fl > /dev/null ; done

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Stephen W. Juranich                         sjuranic@ee.washington.edu
Electrical Engineering         http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic
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