-- Steve Juranich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Wednesday, 22 January 2003, 10:05 AM -0800): > 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). My main machine is a Celeron 366MHz, 256MB machine. GNOME 1.4 ran fine, but, like you, I felt it was slow and hogged a lot of memory.
Desktop environments are nice -- they give a common area for configuration, provide a common look and feel, and overall streamline GUI usage. But they also tend to do it at the cost of memory and disk space. > 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. If you don't like what you're using, the great thing about *nices is that you have choice. I'm currently using (and have been for over a year, a personal record!) blackbox as my window manager (2MB) with Rox-Filer 1.3.x providing a few icons and a file manager (8.5 MB); I've switched to Phoenix for my browser (23.5 MB), and aterm for my terminal (1.5 MB). In this setup, X only runs at 20 MB. So, if memory and speed are an issue, take a look at some of the other choices out there and optimize. You can make an older machine seem very fast -- and a newer one seem to run at light speed or faster. (I used the same setup on a 1.7GHz machine with 256MB, and everything seemed practically instantaneous, with the exception of OO.org.) > 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. You'd think... but even with lots of memory and a fast processor, sometimes one just wants *more* speed. So you optimize. -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
