Re: Why are GNOME applications (and applets) take so much [EMAIL PROTECTED] memory ?
On 17/01/07, Nadav Har'El [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 16, 2007, Oded Arbel wrote about Re: Why are GNOME applications (and applets) take so much [EMAIL PROTECTED] memory ?: I usually see a problem after about a week of usage - after a reboot it behaves itself for a few days. I rebooted this morning, and now Evo is down to 400MB. With the mad race to get better and better hardware, it seems that people forgot how to write efficient software. One of the lost arts is preventing memory leaks. Keep an eye for Andy S. Tannenbaum's keynote at LCA this morning on http://lca2007.linux.org.au/Programme#head-6af3ad9cefbbb05127e86c3d2f00c2542a1bb75e (I'm sure the slides/audio/video will show up later). He talks exactly about this - how his PDP-11 with 64kb RAM used to boot in 4 seconds while his top-of-the-line Xeon server takes two minutes to boot, or how a VAX shared among 80 users and with 1 Mb of ram gave good service to all of them. He quoted someone from Microsoft to the effect of Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster Ah, and another good quote - Software is gas - it grows to use all of its container. (He then goes on to a different path - explaining why Minix 3's tiny amount of kernel-mode code is important in a world of bloated software). knows what). What I can't understand is when the memory of such a program grows over time, forcing you to reboot every week (like you said). Maybe it's not the clock applet. You can't 100% deduct it from the data so far, can you? Contrast this to more modern software, which leaks megabytes *every day* (if not every hour), and nobody is even trying to do anything about it... Alas... Indeed. I remember in my degree studies, Prof. Tarsi tried to explain why it's important to write more efficient programs even as you run on faster hardware, as much as people appreciate his intelligence, the argument didn't always come across... Then again - that's why there is enough work for GOOD programmers...:) --Amos
Internet speed and page loading problems ?
Hi all, I see a lot of slowdowns and page loading problems lately. The networks are very heavily loaded or what ? Loading sites like ynet.com always leaves pages loading for minutes (Firefox) until they complete. What is causing this ? Many foreign sites do not have this problem. Today even Google had the same symptoms. I run my own server as a sandbox and there was difficulty loading images and so on from the outside. Images would transfer 70-90% and then stall. What is on ? Peter = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Moodle in hebrew
On 16/01/07, Gilad Ben-Yossef [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Micha Silver wrote: Just installed moodle with the hebrew language pack (from the moodle site). I see that the RTL is not perfect and some strings are not translated yet. Is anyone still working on this? (I seem to remember improving the translation was a candidate for the Hamakor prize some years ago). A Moddle translation project asked for and got a grant from ISOC and then canceled partcipation for undisclosed reasons. An earlier non complete translation is what you've been using. Gilad The Technion uses moodle in Hebrew. I don't remember seeing any untranslated strings in there. You want me to ask around? Maybe the Technion finished the translation for their own use and have not published it. Dotan Cohen http://dotancohen.com/howto/netscape_bat_email.php http://lahes.com = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?
Hi Peter,
I've noticed these problems also. Seems to come and go. We are also using
Actcom.
- yba
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Peter wrote:
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:24:39 +0200 (IST)
From: Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: IGLU [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Internet speed and page loading problems ?
Hi all,
I see a lot of slowdowns and page loading problems lately. The networks are
very heavily loaded or what ? Loading sites like ynet.com always leaves
pages loading for minutes (Firefox) until they complete. What is causing this
? Many foreign sites do not have this problem. Today even Google had the same
symptoms. I run my own server as a sandbox and there was difficulty loading
images and so on from the outside. Images would transfer 70-90% and then
stall. What is on ?
Peter
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