Re: gtk+ and gtk-engines slow

[raster redhat com]

On 23 Jan, Miguel de Icaza scribbled:
->  
->  > they have buckleys of runing gnome wihtotu hitting swap - gnome eats up
->  > over 16mb before goign anywhere on a machine. 32mb is barely usable -
->  > and this is not imlib's fault. 64Mb is the minimum id' recommend for
->  > gnome so living in a dreamworld where oyu think gnome wil run ok on
->  > 486's wiht 16mb ram wont happen.
->  
->  This is no longer the case.  During the past weeks Elliot and I have
->  sat down and profiled the memory usage of GNOME to make it acceptable
->  under low end machines.

and it still send 32Mb machines well into swap. try impirical analysis.
We do here.

->  I will continue profiling and fixing memory leaks in GNOME.
->  
->  Miguel.

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