Darren J Moffat wrote: > Joel Buckley wrote: >>>> Eric Boutilier wrote: >>>> >>>> Ok, but seriously, why minimize a user desktop? >>>> >> >> The limiting factor on SunRay2 deployment is Memory >> use on per User Desktop. 60 SunRay User Desktops >> managed on a single SunRay Server appears to be typical... >> >> The top memory consumption programs are: >> >> - Xorg >> - Mozilla >> - Firefox >> - Thunderbird >> - StarOffice >> - Gnome-Terminal > > Assuming only a single revision of each of Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird > in the default way they are built. That alone results in 4 copies of > the NSS/NSPR libraries (one each for the apps plus the one already on > the system for use by things like libldap). No sharing! >
But if you do the math, w/ 60 users on a single machine the leverage of reducing heap consumption much outweighs that of improving library sharing between apps... If I reduce heap consumption by 5% on a machine w/ 60 instances of firefox I can easily save 100+ MB of memory... - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts
