Re: Huge Gnome

1999-12-20 Thread Tom Gilbert
* Bruce Richardson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 20 Dec, Tom Gilbert wrote: > > > > Urm, if you look more closely at the top output (I presume you used > > top), you'll see that nearly all the memory used by applets is shared. > > If you don't understand, or are misinterpretting the output of t

Re: Huge Gnome

1999-12-20 Thread Bruce Richardson
On 20 Dec, Tom Gilbert wrote: > > Urm, if you look more closely at the top output (I presume you used > top), you'll see that nearly all the memory used by applets is shared. > If you don't understand, or are misinterpretting the output of top, > please see http://www.tomgilbert.freeserve.co.uk/t

Re: Huge Gnome

1999-12-20 Thread Tom Gilbert
* Jyan-Min Fang ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > My experience with gnome (on redhat 6.0) was that it initially ran fine, > but after a few days, it felt really sluggish. I don't think the memory > usage was the culprit, since free showed I still had many free memory > available. I recalled some artic

Re: Huge Gnome

1999-12-20 Thread Tom Gilbert
* Bruce Richardson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I had a look at Gnome at the beginning of the year and thought it was > too buggy to bother with. Since upgrading to 6.1 the other week I > thought I'd check it out again. It's a lot more stable but I was > HORRIFIED to see how much memory it consu

Re: Huge Gnome

1999-12-16 Thread Elliot Lee
On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Jyan-Min Fang wrote: > My experience with gnome (on redhat 6.0) was that it initially ran fine, > but after a few days, it felt really sluggish. I don't think the memory > usage was the culprit, since free showed I still had many free memory > available. I recalled some artic

Re: Huge Gnome

1999-12-15 Thread Hossein S. Zadeh
On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Jyan-Min Fang wrote: > My experience with gnome (on redhat 6.0) was that it initially ran fine, > but after a few days, it felt really sluggish. I don't think the memory > usage was the culprit, since free showed I still had many free memory > available. I recalled some artic

Re: Huge Gnome

1999-12-13 Thread Jyan-Min Fang
My experience with gnome (on redhat 6.0) was that it initially ran fine, but after a few days, it felt really sluggish. I don't think the memory usage was the culprit, since free showed I still had many free memory available. I recalled some article claimed imlib was the main reason for this probl

Re: Huge Gnome

1999-12-13 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Bruce Richardson wrote: > There are *applets* that > take up more memory then the whole of WindowMaker (my wm of choice). > > Is there any good reason for this bloat? It's at least partially caused by the heavy usage of CORBA. This memory usage is the precise reason why the

Re: Huge Gnome

1999-12-13 Thread M. Erickson
On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Bruce Richardson wrote: > I had a look at Gnome at the beginning of the year and thought it was > too buggy to bother with. Since upgrading to 6.1 the other week I > thought I'd check it out again. It's a lot more stable but I was > HORRIFIED to see how much memory it consu

Huge Gnome

1999-12-13 Thread Bruce Richardson
I had a look at Gnome at the beginning of the year and thought it was too buggy to bother with. Since upgrading to 6.1 the other week I thought I'd check it out again. It's a lot more stable but I was HORRIFIED to see how much memory it consumes. There are *applets* that take up more memory the