On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:05:20AM -0800, 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).
>
> 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.
This is why I went back to windowmaker. I thought gnome looked really
cool, but between fixing the breakage caused by fast moving
development, bugs, interesting packaging (by debian maintainer and/or
Ximian), dependency hell, and the performance, it's just not for me.
YMMV.
--
Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:nnorman@incanus.net
If you don't know what your program is supposed to do, you'd
better not start writing it.
-- Edsger Dijkstra