Re: Milestones document

[D-Man <dman d137-l025 rh rit edu>]

I am experiencing the same problem right now.  I have 64 megs of
physical RAM and about 100 megs of swap.  With E and Window Maker it was
quite slow.  Do the themes make a significant difference?

I know that my problem is memory because I have a PII 300, and the CPU
usage isn't maxed out in the load applet.

-D



"Poletti, Don" wrote:
> 
> Speaking of memory,
> 
> I have not used Gnome much many because on my system it seems
> considerablly slower than Windoze. One of main reasons as far as I
> can tell is due to memory. I have 32 megs and while that is not alot
> by todays standards it should be more than sufficient to bring up
> a desktop and an app or three.
> 
> Of course Linux sucks up free ram to use as disk buffers, while this
> is a good thing it makes it hard to determine memory usage.
> 
> To recapitulate...
> 1) How much Memory does Gnome use?
> 2) How can I minimize memory usage?
> 3) Is there a conscience effort in development to minimize memory?
> 4) Is there some other reason Linux/gnome/E is slower than Windoze?
> 
> Ok there were new questions in there so it wasn't recapitulating but my
> kids have made me watch cat-in-the-hat every day for weeks so the word
> has grown on me.
> 
> In other forums similar questions have led to "buy more memory" my
> response to that is that windoze runs well in 32 megs why can't
> linux/gnome/E?
> 
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