Re: Gnome memory requirements

2006-10-22 Thread Freddie Unpenstein
Just some musings... I suspect this has been discussed before, though I couldn't find anything in a cursory glance through the search engine. (But then I'm notoriously hopeless with search engines) Next thing is, that GLib memory subsystem don't really free memory on g_free(), but do

Re: Gnome memory requirements

2006-09-16 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
On 9/14/06, Tomasz Jankowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GNOME (sometimes) use more memory, then KDE, but it's almost always faster! Funny, isn't it? I used KDE in version 3.5.x some time ago and I must say, that it was sometimes quite slow on my machine, which isn't old (1GB of ram memory,

Re: Gnome memory requirements

2006-09-16 Thread Iain *
On 9/16/06, Fernando Apesteguía [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Next thing is, that GLib memory subsystem don't really free memory on g_free (), but do this when program exits. Memory freed with g_free () is still 'located' for program, which allocated it for first time. Yes, that's true. Its

Gnome memory requirements

2006-09-13 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
Hi list, First of all, I have to say that I'm not sure if this is the proper list to make this post. My apologies if it's not. Today I read this article: http://ktown.kde.org/~seli/memory/ via osnews.com I was surprised because the amount of memory taken by Gnome, specially if we compare the