Re: Gnome Mmeory Requirements: My System

[Havoc Pennington <rhp zirx pair com>]

On Sun, 7 Mar 1999 mozart@windsor.igs.net wrote:
> I've just run Top to see the memory usage of my gnome programs, and I'm kinda
> looking for feedback as to how it compares with other peoples gnome-memory
> usage.  This is kind of a silly thing, but I'm a little curious to see if mine
> is out of whack/very good/unbelievably bad/ or normal.  
>

There's no reason it will ever be different on the same platform (64-bit 
platforms may use more though).
 
>  3010 Amadeus    0   0  3004 3004  2396 S       0  0.0  4.7   0:00 gcalc
>  2935 Amadeus    0   0  2900 2900  2376 S       0  0.0  4.5   0:00 cdplyerApplet
>  2933 Amadeus    0   0  2880 2880  2356 S       0  0.0  4.5   0:00 mixer_applet
>  3012 Amadeus    0   0  2872 2872  2372 S       0  0.0  4.5   0:00 gsearchtool
>  2995 Amadeus    0   0  2840 2840  2344 S       0  0.0  4.4   0:00 ghex
>  2931 Amadeus    0   0  2832 2832  2316 S       0  0.0  4.4   0:00 ModemlghtsApp
>  2926 Amadeus    0   0  2800 2800  2292 S       0  0.0  4.4   0:00 GenUtilApplet

Basically you're seeing that every Gnome app uses about 2 megs of shared
library (which may not be fully loaded off the disk, so might not actually
be that large; in any case these 2 megs are the same for every app and so
10 apps still use only 2 megs). Then most of them use a few hundred K
individually, larger apps use more of course.

Havoc