On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 22:11 +0000, Martin Ebourne wrote: > On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:34:09 +0100, Mark wrote: > > i was just looking through the system monitor to see how my memory usage > > was doing and that gave me a impressive (negative way) result. I've made > > a screenshot [1] of it and edited it a little. > > ... > > Now the notebook i'm typing this on has 1GB om memory and runs Fedora > > fine so if i look at it that way than the ram usage is fine. but keep in > > mind the people with less memory (256 or 512 MB's) they are gonna get a > > hard time with this fedora. My total memory usage at the time of this > > writing is: 432.00 MB (with GIMP on.. if that's closed than it's "just" > > 400 MB). > > > > What i'm trying to say here is that those gnome-panel applets are taking > > up way to much memory regardless of the memory you can afford or have in > > your computer. > > ... > > So.. is something gonna change with this memory abuse? > > , > > [1] > > http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/6821/screenshotsystemmonitoryh4.png > > I agree with you completely about the memory usage of Fedora 8, it has > got VERY bloated recently. > *snip* > To verify the numbers above I killed these tasks off and checked the > reduction in used space (- buffers). The expectation is to see the > private memory returned, and that's almost exactly what I got: > > 1 x deskbar-applet 35MB > 2 x beagled 44MB > 2 x sealert 32MB deskbar-applet and beagled are both interpreted programs (deskbar-applet's written in Python, and beagled in C#), so you'll be taking a performance and memory hit for those. Philip > Over 100MB returned by removing a few almost never used programs, but I'm > still at 698MB, which is still way too much. > > Looking back up that list there's many other things that are using too > much memory. How does a clock applet use over 6MB of private memory? > > Cheers, > > Martin. > > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
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