On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Ralf Mardorf <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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 > I confirm. On my setup, GNOME3 is lighter than GNOME2 (thanks to GTK3 optimizations, cruft removal, and getting rid of the old applet system also helped) Long live GNOME3!
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