rxvt consumes even less memory than xterm.. ahh the good old days. regarding my larger memory footprint, i have no idea. :P maybe (1) 32-bit color depth; (2) overuse of antialiased fonts; (3) very deep scroll buffer? (although this shouldn't contribute THAT much)
On 7/23/05, bodgie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/22/05, Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > the gnome panel consumes 20MB+ of RAM!!!! and gnome-terminal around > > 40MB! actually i never realized gnome was so memory-hungry, i never > > noticed.. > > Amazing. I got curious, so I tried and checked it on my system, and > found out it uses 17MB (I wonder why yours eats up 40MB?). My > gnome-panel uses 19MB resident mem according to top. > > In contrast, xterm (which is xfce's default terminal app) uses a mere > 3.4MB, and xfce4-panel consumes only 10MB. > > -bodgie > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
