Re: Killer app

["Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo debian org>]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:41:19PM -0500, Adam Hooper wrote:

 > FYI, that's an urban legend. While Evolution and Epiphany both
 > consume a gazillion megs of RAM, they are the *same* gazillion megs.
 > Those same gazillion megs show up twice in "top", but the same RAM is
 > only consumed once. And, hell, it's the same RAM the rest of GNOME
 > consumes anyway.

 I wasn't talking about virtual memory.  A blank epiphany has 8 MB of
 data.  Loading one simple page adds 4 MB.  A blank evolution uses 7 MB
 of data.  Browsing a small mail folder (~ 40 messages) adds 6 MB.
 Mutt, looking at the index of a folder with ~ 1000 messages, has 2 MB
 of data.

 If you have 256 MB that's no big deal.  If you have 128 MB it is.  My
 gazillion is something like 10% of the system's memory.

 Marcelo

 PS: I don't add more memory to the small machine because it uses rather
     expensive and hard-to-find memory, before you remind me that memory
     is nowadays cheap.  And other than that, that machine is more than
     adequate for its purpose.