Scott James Remnant (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} keybuk) wrote,@ 2004-08-01 17:01:00 |
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Memory again...
Uh, Erich, if eds loads every shared library and takes 80MB ... then the amount of memory you need for every other app is also 80MB, not 512MB.
79MB of that is shared with every other application loading the shared library, they all use the same copy.
Actually, the largest load time isn't anything to do with the size of the libraries, it's the symbolic relocation that needs to be performed -- this won't be any faster having loaded eds first.
GNOME do have a relatively slack attitude to memory management, but then memory *is* cheap these days. But you're vastly exaggerating it.
The GNOME footprint is 80MB, not 512MB. That's 432MB left for all your heap requirements, more than enough. In fact, on this GNOME-running machine with evolution, mozilla, xchat, gaim, etc. all running -- there's enough free memory that 280MB is being used for the page cache!
Uh, Erich, if eds loads every shared library and takes 80MB ... then the amount of memory you need for every other app is also 80MB, not 512MB.
79MB of that is shared with every other application loading the shared library, they all use the same copy.
Actually, the largest load time isn't anything to do with the size of the libraries, it's the symbolic relocation that needs to be performed -- this won't be any faster having loaded eds first.
GNOME do have a relatively slack attitude to memory management, but then memory *is* cheap these days. But you're vastly exaggerating it.
The GNOME footprint is 80MB, not 512MB. That's 432MB left for all your heap requirements, more than enough. In fact, on this GNOME-running machine with evolution, mozilla, xchat, gaim, etc. all running -- there's enough free memory that 280MB is being used for the page cache!
