GNOME2's High Memory usage

[Chris Chabot <chabotc reviewboard com>]

A while back some people were discussing memory usage of gnome 2 
applications on this list. Now that i have a 'stable' gnome2 platform 
running again, i'd like to chip in with my results.. My conslusion would 
be that memory usage does seem awefully high, even considering the 
amount of debug info still in the binaries.

Below, a ps aux sniplet, when running a fresh 'gnome-session'. Notice 
the 22megs for nautilus, and 12 .. 14 megs for applets (even with 6 or 7 
megs shared, is still a _lot_ of memory for an applet in a panel). The 
panel it self also has similar memory usage..  All this makes me very 
happy that i have 1 gig of ram, but wurried for people who do not ;-)

ps aux output (trimed for 80 width)
(user      pid    c% m% VSZ    RSS ...)
root      1778  0.8  0.9 13292 7376 tty1     S    14:50   0:00 gnome-session
root      1791  1.3  0.4  5736 3376 tty1     S    14:50   0:00 sawfish
root      1809  0.0  0.3  3672 2424 ?        S    14:50   0:00 esd 
-terminate -n
root      1833  0.2  0.4 11736 3572 ?        S    14:50   0:00 
gnome-smproxy --s
root      1835  1.4  1.5 18196 11872 ?       SN   14:50   0:00 
gnome2-settings-d
root      1839  2.1  1.2 14988 9528 ?        S    14:50   0:00 
gnome-panel-2 --s
root      1842  5.3  1.7 22784 13352 ?       S    14:50   0:01 nautilus 
--sm-cli
root      1845  0.6  0.8 12604 6656 ?        S    14:50   0:00 
geyes_applet2 --o
root      1847  0.8  0.9 14108 7124 ?        S    14:50   0:00 
nautilus-throbber
root      1849  2.1  0.8 12880 6364 ?        S    14:50   0:00 
cdplayer_applet2
root      1850  0.0  1.7 22784 13352 ?       S    14:50   0:00 nautilus 
--sm-cli
root      1851  0.0  1.7 22784 13352 ?       S    14:50   0:00 nautilus 
--sm-cli
root      1852  0.0  1.7 22784 13352 ?       S    14:50   0:00 nautilus 
--sm-cli
root      1854  0.5  0.8 12484 6300 ?        S    14:50   0:00 
mixer_applet2 --o
root      1858  0.7  0.9 12520 6972 ?        S    14:50   0:00 
charpick_applet2

   -- Chris