On 16/01/07, Oded Arbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
And can something be done about it ??
In parallel to the other comments - I use GNOME 2.14.3 on Debian Etch on an Athlon XP 2500+ (a 1.1GHz processor) with 1.25Gb ram and can't remember when I last saw this system use its swap since I upgraded from 512Mb. I'm not saying this is an ideal situation, it still uses 47% of its RAM for programs (and the rest for cache) and it's still slow (I tend to blame the CPU and the old graphics card) but it's far from the situation people here describe about their GNOME performance. I mostly use Firefox, with Skype, a few gnome terminals (which I heard are notorious for memory leaks) and the occasional OpenOffice application, and currently my system is up for over two days (apparently had a power failure over the weekend when I was outside home). So whatever is your conclusion - this is just another data point that maybe the problem is not totally generic to GNOME but maybe you should look for some additional causes in your particular setup. --Amos
