On Wednesday 04 January 2006 17:10, Frank Wiles wrote:
On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 16:56:36 +0000 Luke-Jr [email protected] wrote:
On Wednesday 04 January 2006 06:25, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
I am looking for something that would run KDE / GNOME well enough that I don't misinterpret its performance as a bug. I suspect video card + 900 MHz machine would do the job. Although, beggers are not choosers.
- a crapload of RAM
Unless you use only very few applications at a time, even 1 GB won't be enough. I generally sit around 3 GB RAM usage-- mostly swapped, which kills performance.
Or you could just use less applications at once.
Hence "Unless you use only very few applications at a time".
I run Gnome all day on a laptop with only 384 MBs of RAM. It's my primary work station and I never run into serious performance problems.
Perhaps you only do one or two things at a time and don't have on average over 50 windows open?
I typically have the following running constantly:
*) Several ( 5 or more ) terminals
I have at least that many, especially if you count each individual Konsole tab.
*) Sylpheed
Obviously a good idea to have a mail app open all the time ;)
*) Firefox with several tabs
Aww, cmon. Firefox is for Windows lusers... Those of us who use Linux-based OS have better browsers, namely Konqueror.
*) X-Chat
This used to eat a ton of RAM on my system until I limited its scrollback buffer...
*) Gaim
Not sure about Gaim, but Kopete can eat quite a bit of RAM. I like Psi's nice small footprint.
*) Lifrea
How's the RAM usage here? Akregator keeps all article summaries in RAM, and is eating 52 MB right now (usually more)