Brian Nitz wrote: > While I agree that memory usage for GNOME application is typically > higher than that for CDE, when I run prstat -srss on almost any Sun Ray > within our organization, the top memory users by far are staroffice, > firefox, the Xserver and acroread. Trimming a few meg off > nautilus,metacity and gnome-panel is worthwhile and fixing leaks to the > X server is especially important. But if you really want the typical > memory footprint of CDE back in the Solaris 7 days, you'd trim much more > bloat by replacing firefox with mosaic and going back to and older > soffice and acroread. I don't think anyone wants that. > > Nokia, OLPC and similar embedded users of gnome components have > requirements more closely aligned with Sun's ultathin client customers > so more people are looking at memory footprint. (I've been tracking it > build to build) Firefox 3.0s memory footprint looks like it will be > significantly smaller and those of us running Gnome 2.20 on Sun Ray > instead of Gnome 2.6 (same hardware) do it to "fly our own airplanes", > but we also do it because it seems to have better performance. > > Still, I agree that "bells and whistles" eye candy Gnome will have to > diverge from thin-client Gnome, especially now that alpha blending and > other 3D graphics card features are being utilized. >
This is interesting. Are there any plans for such divergence? I have never heard of a "thin-client Gnome" before. -Bob
