Steve Juranich said: > 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 don't use gnome much, sounds like your using GNOME2? curious what speed proc you have and what kinda disk/controller? My only experience with gnome2 is on one of my sun ultra1s with solaris and sun's gnome beta stuff. 512MB ram, ultra scsi disks(20MB/s?), ran fairly well(about the same as CDE). Gnome 1.4 is quite fast. I use afterstep 1.6 on my woody machine, I make extensive use of gnome terminal(gnome 1), average memory usage is 9MB, some are 10MB. phoenix 0.5 is using 87MB memory(up for 2 weeks, not bad), opera using 38MB(restarted it yesterday after it was using 150MB), netscape 4 using 35MB(last used it on saturday). staroffice 6 using 217MB, X using 374MB(128MB video card). running on an athlon 1300 768MB ram, no swap, 9GB ultra wide scsi disk on a 2940UW controller on debian woody with 2.2.19 kernel. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
