Re: Memory Issues

["Maher Awamy" <muhri muhri net>]

On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 10:17:51 -0500, Poletti, Don said:

> I'm having performance problems on my machine and I'm 99%
>  sure its due to memory issues. I have 64Megs of Ram. But when
>  I run Galeon or Mozilla My machine starts swapping like mad 
>  and changing windows talks 5 seconds or more. Using Gtop
>  I found that Galeon uses 80megs and Mozilla 0.6 was using
>  130Megs! In both cases that was just to launch and display 
>  Google's home page. No wonder my machine was crawling.

Errm.. Mozilla or Galeon or any threaded application is not using ALL the
memory that gtop will report, those are threads.. so if you say Galeon is using
80 megabytes, you are adding up all the threads... Count one thread memory
usage only, probably around 20 megabytes. Same goes for Mozilla, same goes for
Xmms, same goes for Skipstone.. FYI ;-)

Maher

>  
>  What are my alternatives. I find this very annoying since
>  IE does need nearly so much ram so this makes Linux/Gnome
>  crawl compared with windows running on the same hardware doing
>  similar tasks.
>  
>  While I'm on a rant it look likes XMMS takes like 10-15 megs
>  Is it just me or does this seem way excessive.
>  
>  This will effectively keep me from using Linux/Gnome since
>  it less than half the speed of windows on my machine.
>  
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