Memory Footprint claims

[James Green <gnome cyberstorm demon co uk>]

Hi all,

Just wondered over to www.ude.org (Unix Desktop Environment) and took a
look at the screenshots (I don't like 'em btw). I quote:

"This screen-shot shows GtkICQ, The Gimp, 2xXV (UDE-Logo and the huge 
background), Netscape, Applixware and an ETerm. There are still 3mb RAM of
64mb RAM free. With GNOME all 64mb RAM are used up just after starting it
without applications."

Well with three X @ 1152x768x24bit, latest gnome + digital clock, gnome
pager, Modemlights, CDPlayer applets, three e-terms (one with BitchX, one
with pine, with running top), plus GQMpeg playing via mpg123 *AND*
Netscape Navigator 4.06 not to mention background processed, I have 2.4Mb
free RAM and using 24Mb swapfile on my 64Mb system.

Does anyone from the Gnome/RedHat development team(s) feel like countering
UDE's claims officially? Surely Gnome can't be *that* bad?

top says:


  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 8757 root       3   0 32668  24M  2024 S       0  0.9 40.3   9:45 X
 8941 jg         0   0 21444  13M  1444 S       0  0.0 22.2   6:57
netscape
 9995 jg        19   0  2376 2376  2232 R       0 10.0  3.7   0:08 mpg123
 9992 jg         0   0  2144 2144  1224 S       0  0.0  3.3   0:03 Eterm
 9923 gnome      0   0  1556 1556  1220 S       0  0.0  2.4   0:00 pine
 8793 jg         0   0  2252 1500   856 S       0  0.0  2.3   0:02 gmc
 8822 jg         0   0  1812 1480  1104 S       0  0.0  2.3   0:11
gnomepager_a
 9796 jg         0   0  1776 1376   260 S       0  0.0  2.1   0:04 Eterm
 8770 jg         0   0  1916 1272   684 S       0  0.1  2.0   0:22
enlightenmen
 9996 jg         1   0  1132 1132  1008 S       0  0.5  1.7   0:00 mpg123
 9862 jg         0   0  1700  972   792 S       0  0.0  1.5   0:00 gqmpeg
 9877 jg         0   0   960  960   440 S       0  0.0  1.5   0:03 Eterm
 9812 jg         0   0  1072  944   548 S       0  0.0  1.4   0:00 BitchX
 9921 gnome      0   0   892  892   556 S       0  0.0  1.4   0:00 su
 8820 jg         0   0  1320  844   628 S       0  0.0  1.3   0:05
asclock_appl
 9997 jg         0   0   836  836   652 S       0  0.0  1.3   0:00 bash
 8818 jg         0   0  1288  824   600 S       0  0.0  1.2   0:00
modemlights_
 9922 gnome      0   0   780  780   632 S       0  0.0  1.2   0:00 bash
10008 jg         5   0   728  728   560 R       0  1.5  1.1   0:01 top
 8766 jg         0   0  1000  720   564 S       0  0.0  1.1   0:04
gnome-sessio
 8824 jg         0   0  1164  616   420 S       0  0.0  0.9   0:00
cdplayer_app

Oh, and this thing's been up:

[jg@cyberstorm .gnome-desktop]$ uptime
  2:32pm  up 4 days,  1:35,  1 user,  load average: 0.42, 0.44, 0.37