On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:05:20AM -0800, Steve Juranich wrote: > 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.
This is why I went back to windowmaker. I thought gnome looked really cool, but between fixing the breakage caused by fast moving development, bugs, interesting packaging (by debian maintainer and/or Ximian), dependency hell, and the performance, it's just not for me. YMMV. -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't know what your program is supposed to do, you'd better not start writing it. -- Edsger Dijkstra -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
