> -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Juranich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 10:05 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: GNOME == bloatware? > > > 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
It's you but I can't be a lot of help. On my 384M laptop, I can fire up a gnome session with a gnome-terminal and only be using 196M of physical memory. Top piggies are (virtual and real memory listed): gnome-panel 10Mv, 10Mr Xfree86 17Mv, 9Mr gnome-terminal 9Mv, 9Mr gnome-session 8Mv, 8Mr I'm not running Galeon but I don't have any trouble running Mozilla which is probably on the same order of magnitude in hugeness. I'd look to your Xserver which seems huge. 65M seems a bit large for a system that just translates network request to frambuffer blits. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
