Re: Nautilus, galeon and evolution taking huge amount of memory...

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

Franck Martin <franck sopac org> writes:

> I know that the above applications are still in infancy stage, but is it
> normal that they take so much memory? I have Nautilus as desktop and it
> is taking about 100MB of memory, evolution takes same amount and oafd is
> at about 50MB...
> 
> I suspect some huge memory leaks too...
> 
> For Nautilus it seems there is a fork of each nautilus for each of the
> desktop icon, plus the desktop or about 8 main processes with each of
> them exactly the same amount of memory used whatever I do. Is top
> reporting correctly?

These are threads -- they share memory.  The only real way to check
memory usage before and after starting.  My nautilus is ~11 Megs or so,
give or take...

Thanks,
-Jonathan