Re: [Nautilus-list] long-standing icon-factory bug

[Gerald Champagne <gerald io com>]

> 
> Before fix:
> 20742 alex      11   0 18928  18M  9112 S     4.9  3.6   0:04 nautilus
> 
> After fix:
> 17986 alex      11   0 14788  14M  9104 S     0.0  2.8   0:04 nautilus
> 
> Woops! Apparently this saved 4 megs of unused pixmap cache. And this is 
> measured directly after startup having rendered my home dir.

That's great!

Is that 4 meg a fixed value, or will it scale with the number of
pixmaps?  If it's linear, then this could save quite a bit of memory
when opening directories with many images.  This would help avoid
swapping memory and it could help speed up Nautilus.

Gerald