[Gllug] Re: What is the Gnome & KDE difference??

[Richard Jones]

On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 03:42:46PM +0100, hrussman1 at ukonline.co.uk wrote:
> Perhaps it simply
> isn't possible to provide this kind of all-singing, all-dancing,
> preconfigured, tightly-integrated desktop environment without being "fat,
> bloated and slow".

Perhaps it's because I have a ridiculously powerful 64 bit desktop
computer, but I don't find GNOME to be slow.  Bloated is another
matter though:

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 8452 root      15   0  313m 202m 7104 S  0.0 10.1   1031:22 Xorg
26080 rich      15   0  320m 108m  19m S  0.0  5.4   9:01.64 firefox-bin
 9379 rich      15   0  189m  56m 6708 S  0.0  2.8  20:03.47 gnome-terminal
 9359 rich      16   0  222m  27m 7168 S  0.0  1.4   1:55.57 nautilus
 9316 rich      16   0  115m  25m 4936 S  0.0  1.3  25:35.35 metacity
 8792 rich      15   0 71856  17m 5564 S  0.0  0.9  43:39.89 skype
12020 rich      16   0  153m  14m 5396 S  0.0  0.7   0:22.47 evince
16691 rich      16   0 75892  13m 2332 S  0.0  0.7   0:22.71 xemacs
14625 rich      16   0 75756  13m 1960 S  0.0  0.7   0:14.44 xemacs
 9437 rich      16   0  139m  12m 4628 S  0.0  0.6   6:08.63 wnck-applet
 9355 rich      16   0  116m  11m 4444 S  0.0  0.6   1:01.55 gnome-panel

(Including X in there is a little bit unfair, because as we discussed
on this list some time ago, much of the apparent bloat there is caused
by memory mapping the display).

I did notice in the latest GNOME release notes that gnome-terminal is
now apparently much smaller.  Which it bloody ought to be considering
all it's doing is emulating a green screen terminal :-)  I wonder how
much ROM/RAM those original terminals had ...

Firefox is "only" taking up 320 MB of virtual memory today because it
routinely crashes, and crashed last time just yesterday IIRC.  Ah
well, one day I'll write a CSS renderer in OCaml and then we'll see
what proper language & memory management can do.

Rich.

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