On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 19:43 +0000, Luke Kuhn wrote: > 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!
Thank you, this is good news, since I hope to be able to stick with GNOME. :) Ralf -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
