Bob Doolittle wrote:
> 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
>
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No, its my name for something that doesn't exist yet AFAIK.
