[geeks] OSX Server

Phil Stracchino phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net
Thu Mar 17 14:28:12 CST 2005


Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Gnome is now finally usable, but still buggy, and is a tremendous
> resource hog, far above and beyond that which is reasonable for what it
> provides.
> 
> Just some information on memory consumption on my system right now:
> 
>     Nautilus (the file browser) 	    56MB
>     Firefox				    108MB
>     Thunderbird (Mozilla E-Mail)	    56MB
>     GThumb (image viewer/organizer)	    134MB
>     Beep (media player)			    41MB
>     Weather applet			    26MB 
>     Mixer applet (basic volume control)	    24MB

24MB for a mixer applet?!?  Good god.  That is just fucking beyond absurd.


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