On 11/6/08 3:11 AM, Bob Palowoda wrote: > Ok this is in respect of SXCE 101a which includes both Songbird and Rhythmbox. > I have what I suspect as a mediocre size library of mp3 that is 113G in size. > But that > is not the issue. When I examine the RSS value of Songbird (506M) vs the RSS > value of Rhythmbox 87M for the same size of imported mp3 files that is quite > a large > difference. > > The question is what is a reasonable consumption of memory for a multimedia > application? I do understand that Songbird has other options but what I would > like a good understanding is what is a reasonable limit of memory consumption > of these two multimedia applications on a desktop with 4G of memory. > > I would just like to hear some logical justification of the memory > consumption with > the intended target audience/usage of their respective systems. > If you care about memory consumption above all else, then you'll almost certainly want to use Rhythmbox. While we've done a fair bit of work to try and reduce the memory footprint of Songbird, that will never be its core competency. Not all multimedia applications are created alike... and feature-wise you'll find different feature-sets offered by the various players. Much the same way OpenSolaris is not the same as QNX, Songbird is not the same as Rhythmbox.
cheers, steve -- stephen lau | stevel at opensolaris.org | www.whacked.net
