Re: Can anything be done to reduce memory usage?

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Using top, ps or gtop, take a look at how much of the print applet is
shared code.  You will probably find that the memory unique to the applet
is quite a bit smaller.

As for using gnome-help-browser for displaying help, go to the URL
Handlers capplet and change the handler for file or default to
gnome-help-browser (one of the options in the combo box should do).  That
will get the desired behaviour.

James.

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On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Kevin Cowtan wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I've just switched to Gnome in Red Hat 6.0 from KDE in 5.2, and before
> IRIX/4Dwm and DEC/CDE. Overall I like both the appearance and the
> useability of Gnome very much, and hope to stick with it.
> 
> Unfortunately I am having one big problem, which is memory usage
> (my machine has 32Mb). Checking the system monitor, it seems that
> huge amounts of memory are being used by things which seem
> intuitively very simple: for example, the resident size of the little
> applet which prints the time and date on the panel is 3Mb, and the
> pager/task list applet is similar. And of course, gmc takes about 5Mb
> just to maintain the desktop icons. I could kill all of these, but then
> I may as well go back to KDE.
> 
> Changing gtk themes doesn't seem to help. I gained a little bit of
> space by replacing Enlightenment with wmx (compiled without pixmaps
> and stripped for 82K executable), which I now use on a 486 laptop and
> SGI Indy at work too ( http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/wmx/ )
> 
> Another memory consuming problem I have is that I can't get Gnome help
> pages to appear in the help browser - it insists on using Netscape,
> which leads to extensive disk thrashing. Even the help menu in the
> Gnome help browser itself brings up Netscape. I've changed the
> mime handler for html in the mime-types control panel (only affects gmc),
> and changed all the entries in the URL-handlers control panel to start
> the help browser rather than gnome-moz-remote (ghelp and the other two
> change OK, but if I change default it has changed back when I close
> and reopen the control center, there is no effect on behaviour).
> Is there any way I can overcome this and force everything to go
> to the help browser, or even to kfm?
> 
> So can anyone tell me how to fix this? Also, is there any
> fix for the memory consumption? I'm happy to recompile a newer
> version or mess around with flags if necessary.
> 
> Apart from that, great work. Keep it up!
> 
> Kevin
> Dr. Kevin Cowtan, Structural Biology Laboratory, University of York, UK
> 
> 
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