On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 08:21:13AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Micha Feigin wrote: > > 1. If you will read the whole thread you will see that its just gone off > > track, and you pushed in this direction in the first place. Push > > someone in the corner and then attack them for being pushed in the > > corner |-D > > Excuse me? I did not. > > --- SNIP --- > s. keeling wrote: > > > I gave up on both of those; they're equally uncontrollable, and far > > too fat to leave any room for actual applications to run. ymmv. > > > Could've fooled me. > > --- SNIP --- > > s. keeling pushed that way, I only replied. From that message CaT > erroniously inferred... > > --- SNIP --- > CaT wrote: > > > It's more of a case of 'Isn't 240Mb (or 200 cos of squid) a bit much for > > a pretty desktop?' ;) > --- SNIP --- > > ...that somehow KDE was taking up 200Mb which I later tested and posted was > 16Mb. Someone else, meanwhile, mentioned laptops which is where you jumped in > with your "more memory used means more CPU cycles used!" claptrap. Please, if > you're going to accuse people of pushing a discussion one way or another at > least check before doing so.
I tried those tests, they are bogus (didn't delve into the reasons). To get true figures you need a clean boot. disable display manager, clean boot, check free, run startx, check free, start a kde or gnome program, exit, check free again (#1 checkpoint) clean boot, check free, and startx with icewm or the such (#2 checkpoint) and then compare #1 with #2, that will give you something closer to real figures. I tried on several programs, starting and stopping several times and checking free each time and numbers were never consistent (even for small programs I could start stop start stop and have a 15MB difference). > > -- > Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your > PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. > -------------------------------+--------------------------------------------- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
