Alexander Skwar wrote: > Hi! > > 2008/12/5 dick hoogendijk <dick at nagual.nl> > >> >> I won't rebuild it. I cannot do that. But is it normal that >> Gnome-Terminal needs 245MB of memory just for a few windows? > > > I guess it *very* much depends on how many tabs > you've got open and how many lines of scrollback > you told gnome-terminal to save. > > On Linux, I quite often see gnome-terminal to consume > upwards of 100m - but with 5 or 6 windows with ~10 > tabs and 5k lines of scrollback (or 3m of memory allocated > for that), that's not really that much of a surprise, I'd > say :)
This is/was about the default gnome-terminal. I had -FOUR- tabs open w/ default settings. That comes down to about 60MB(!) per terminal. Compare that to a xterm or rxvt ;-( -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE +http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS 10u6 10/08 ZFS+
