Re: REALITY CHECK: Resource usage of gnome

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Sun, 24 May 1998, Chris Evans wrote:

> With mem=8M and trying to start gnome, things are not so good. The panel
> seems to demand ~4Mb RSS when it can.

A lot of this is mico. This will change as soon as ORBit becomes usable
;-)

I agree that performance is important, it's just that right now we want
apps period - probably some time before GNOME 1.0 (hah!) we'll have to go
through everything and see what we can cut down (glib has some memory
profiling tools that will be helpful, I think).

I know imlib allocates a good-sized chunk of data that could be shared
between apps (it is a per-display color cube or something) - talk to
raster about ways to share it.

-- Elliot
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	...not yelling and screaming like the people in the back of the
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