I am running it right now in a netbook with only 1GB of ram installed, and top shows it using only 4.2% of one GB, which is 42MB. When editing video on the big 4 core/4GB ram machines, I tend to keep a close eye on ram usage and would have noticed pretty quick if some process made my conky bar for ram usage sit at 25% before even opening kdenlive or avidemux. Even on this netbook, at idle CPU usage will show at 1% on one 'hyperthread" virtual core and 2% on the other. Whoever reported 1GB of ram in use with GNOME3 probably had a stuck process within it, perhaps after an update so something. My experience is that will normally show itself with 100% use of one core and the fan speeds coming up, though. Restarting X or at worst rebooting after such an update stops such problems and they don't come back in my experience. I haven't had any resource use problems from any desktop, even GNOME3, affecting audio work in Audacity from any desktop environment on my 4 core machines, though on those I can actually edit audio while rendering video!
> Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:25:14 +0200 > From: Ralf Mardorf <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: GNOME2 function comes to GNOME3, with a third party > extension package > Message-ID: <1307399114.2677.1.camel@debian> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 21:52 +0000, Luke Kuhn wrote: > > I'm still playing with GNOME3 UI options, and just found another one, the > > "frippery" extensions for gnome-shell. Since gnome-shell is written > > largely in Javascript, a good Javascript programmer can make quite a few > > customizations of it. This package includes six changes, of which I am > > using five in gnome-shell. They are written explicitly to bring GNOME2 > > functionality to GNOME3, and by the way are visually stunning-especially > > the traditional GNOME menu themed in the GNOME3 transparent smoke. This > > package was enough to make me switch from Unity to Gnome-shell with these > > extensions added. > > The pertinant extensions, from the author's website are listed below: > > "Move the clock: Move the clock from the centre of the panel towards the > > right. This isn't a very significant change, but it was the first extension > > I wrote. One minor annoyance is that the width of the clock changes with > > the time so the indicator icons move about a little.Favourites in > > panelPlace a launcher for each favourite application in the panel. It isn't > > possible to manage the list from the panel: instead you can add, remove or > > move favourite applications in the dash and the panel display will update > > to match." > > "Applications menu in panel: Replace the Activities button in the panel > > with an Applications menu. The menu is implemented using facilities > > supplied by the shell so it doesn't behave exactly like a normal menu." > > "Shut Down menu: Replace the Suspend item in the status menu with Shut > > Down. The dialog that this invokes includes all available shutdown options: > > suspend, hibernate, restart and power off. > > An a really big one: > > "Bottom panel Add a bottom panel, including a window list, workspace > > switcher and message tray button. Because the workspace switcher is > > arranged horizontally the keybindings for changing workspace have been > > altered to ctrl-alt-left/right. The message tray button shows and hides the > > message tray, as the hot corner is hidden by the panel. Right clicking on > > the workspace switcher invokes a dialog to set the number of workspaces." > > > > I am not using the "disable dynamic workspaces" extension, as dynamic > > workspaces, always one more than in use, are reliable on my systems. > > Here's the author's website: > > http://intgat.tigress.co.uk/rmy/extensions/index.html > > > > Here's the package: > > > > http://intgat.tigress.co.uk/rmy/extensions/gnome-shell-frippery-0.2.0.tgz > > I now plan to download some Javascript tutorials, in hopes of being able to > > replace the "applications" text in the upper right corner menu with an > > Ubuntustudio button, still triggering the new-old menu system. > > Somebody wrote that GNOME3 occupies 1GB RAM. Could you please run top > and verify/falsify this statement? > > Thank you in advance! > > Ralf
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