Steve Juranich said on Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:05:20AM -0800: > 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). Keep in mind that those numbers don't really tell you how much memory is in use: shared libraries are counted for every program that loads them, I think and X mmaps your video cards memory, which results in X being Xserver memory + Video card memory, which can be "exciting" when you have a 64MB video card. :) Also, threads appear to show multiple copies (ie, my copy of Mozilla currently has 12 threads, and each one appears to be taking 45MB, but in reality the total Mozilla is taking 45MB). Now, it's certainly true that using GNOME is going to consume a lot of resources, but (at least on my desktop box), it only appears to check about 128MB, which should leave you plenty of room, in theory... > 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. Heh. If I weren't lazy, I'd throw away most of the GNOME stuff... I don't use any of it anymore, and sawfish is unfortunately buggy. Maybe one of these days I'll get around to trying Metacity... I like it's design style. M
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