Re: [gnome-love] Gnome Ressource Project

[Michal Palczewski <mpalczew u washington edu>]

Is there a mozilla keyword for memory usage problems in the gnome bugzilla.
I think I can fix most of these bugs.

Mike

On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 02:23:57AM +0200, Sebastian Kapp wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I've got an idea for a new project: The Gnome Ressource Project.
>
> That project is about how Gnome uses ressources and how to improve it. I
> think mainly about speed and memory usage. Some months ago, I used Gnome
> 1.2 on a 486/80 with 32mb ram. That went almost fine, but I had to have
> a look at the memory and the processor. Recently, however, there's a
> trend to bloated applications, like nautilus and evolution. On the other
> hand, there are applications like Abiword and Gnumeric, who are fast and
> slim. So it /is/ possible to be ressource aware.
>
> I don't want Gnome to become like KDE, that wants 128mb ram to start
> with. So I got the idea of a project that would support people who want
> to reduce the ressource usage of Gnome.
>
> That project would have some web sites like
>
> #Tools
> This would contain what profiling tools etc are available and how to use
> them to find bottlenecks, memory monsters etc. This site is for people
> who want to help and need to know how.
>
> #Todo
> This sites list programs that are too slow or use too much memory etc.
> That gives us the chance to improve where it's needed. People then try
> to trace down the problems and add more detailed descriptions to the
> list, so developers know where something can be improved.
>
> #Most common problems
> Here we would put hints for programmers how to avoid extensive memory
> usage and how to avoid common bottlenecks etc. Whenever we find
> something that's often done wrong, we can here describe the problem and
> how to fix it.
>
> And, of course, there would be a mailing list to discuss all this. The
> web sites can be built as a result of that discussions. People on that
> list can complain about progs that waste ressources, discuss what needs
> to be done and what can be done, ask for help how to do it etc.
>
>
> Any ideas? Comments? Flames?
>
>
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