i got 640mb, swap is never active On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 23:28, Luke Scharf wrote: > On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 16:17, Redeeman wrote: > > this is not a complain, but i wonder why evolution is so slow? i have a > > 1.5ghz athlon so i should be good running, is there something i can do > > to speed it up? i have already a optimized system, gentoo linux > > How much RAM do you have? > > If you run top, you can see how much of your swap partitions are being > used. If starting Evolution causes the value to go up, I'd say that the > reason is probably the lack of memory. > > Running Evolution, Mozilla, and Nautilus together takes a lot of RAM. > Right now, I'm showing 55mb of RAM for Evolution (I have big mailboxes), > 10mb for Nautilus, 21mb for Mozilla, and 26mb for X -- and that's not > counting the libraries that the applications are using, or the big > mmaped devices that X is using. Eye candy is expensive. > > My machine ran pretty well with 256mb of ram, but I could bog it down if > I tried. Now, I have 784mb and I've disabled my swap partitions! The > real reason for the upgrade was so that I could run VMWare alongside all > of my eye candy, though. :-) > > -Luke > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution -- Regards, Redeeman () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ - against microsoft attachments
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