Re: Milestones document

[Sam Phillips <samp aztech-cs com>]

On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Ben FrantzDale frobwitzed with great zamboni-ism:

> 
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> From: D-Man <dman@d137-l025.rh.rit.edu>
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> Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 4:06 PM
> Subject: Re: Milestones document
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> 
> > 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?
> >
> 
> In E, very very much so. It's quite impressive how fast E is with a very
> minimal theme (or none at all :-) Also, if you have 4 desktops at 1024x760
> with fullscreen 24bit backgrounds (and you switch between them frequently,
> keeping them all in RAM) that's 6MB. Highly complex themes also have a lot
> of graphics, adding to that a lot... (Apparently E's borders are really made
> of lots of little windows(this will change for 0.17) so complex themes can
> force X to think about a lot of windows slowing things down (though not
> impacting on memory too much, I think))
> 
> --Ben
> 

I've started using Sawmill and it greatly improves the performance of
Gnome on my box.

> 
> > 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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