> > This is really bad. Firefox + Xserver will soon > > consume 1.3 GB together > > and a 1 GB system will start excessive paging. Is > > this really needed? > > What is ridiculous is that one needs 1GB of RAM for a graphical > installation. That is really unacceptable, and it's a self-afflicted > slap in the face of Solaris engineering.
It speaks more about some twitt deciding to use Java when it was completely unnecessary. Java is great, but it has a time and a place - a resource constrained situation like a setup is no place for something whose memory consumption expands at a faster rate than my waist line. Matthew _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
