Steve Juranich wrote: > 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). This would be Gnome 2, I assume, since you're running sid? I do not care for gnome-terminal in Gnome 2. Before I switched to KDE 3.1, I was using rxvt for all my X-terminal needs. (Now I'm using Konsole, which is less annoying than gnome-terminal, but kind of slow compared to rxvt -- a command like 'cat really-huge-text-file' takes much longer in Konsole. As I recall, gnome-terminal was pretty slow too.) I have not carefully examined memory usage under KDE 3.1, but I do not see much use of swap space on my 384 MB system. And I find Konqueror to be preferable to nautilus as a file manager, and nearly the equal of mozilla as a web browser. > 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've never liked IceWM. When I want a simple X environment, I use Fluxbox. > 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. Using what kernel? I'm currently on 2.4.19-ac1, which uses the rmap VM. I find this does a good job of using memory without swapping unnecessarily. Mainline 2.4 kernels, and anything older than that, seem to swap when there's no real need to. Craig
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