Re: Milestones document

[jrb redhat com]

> Hi
> 
> > I'm also basically rewriting gnome-terminal ... its about 80%
> > preferences code, and i'm adding a lot more configuration options, so
> > I am using libglade for this (and hence the mostly-rewrite).  Bigger
> > footprint?  Oh well, tough :)
> 
> Ugh. Does it really have to keep getting BIGGER? It's already a huge memory h
og - quick'n'dirty comparison time:
> 
> SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
> 3292 3292  2592 S       0  0.0  2.6   0:00 gnome-terminal
> 1712 1712  1324 S       0  0.0  1.3   0:00 xterm
 
It's prolly not as bad as you think. -- only a 300K difference

Check out http://serendipity.res.cmu.edu/~jberkman/MemoryUsage/index.html for 
an example
of how memory works under Unix.

-Jonathan