Re: [Evolution] heavy

[Redeeman <redeeman metanurb dk>]

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
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