Re: Milestones document

[bob cs csoft net]

I have a  similar problem. most aparent while netscape is running.
I think it is a memory leak of some kind. If I leave netscape up it speeds
the leek up. If I leave netscape up for a day or 2, sometimes it will
exaust memory so badly that I am forced to hard boot. If I close netscape
right before all memory is exausted,some memory comes back, but not all. I
am forced to restart X. I am running on a dual PII 350 with 64mb and 127
mb swap partition.

On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, D-Man wrote:

> 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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