Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] RAM consumption

[Derek Smithies <derek indranet co nz>]

Hi,
 Been  there, and installed new linux distro on old (4 years) machines.

The size of the openh323/pwlib libraries have increased over the years - 
new code has been added to provide new functionality. The new code has 
led to an increase in the size of the executable. However, the factor 
which has the biggest influence on the size of the execuatable is gcc.

When gcc changed between 2.95.X and 2.96.Y
   (sorry, cannot remember the values of X & Y)
Prior to the change, 
   you could compile openh323 from source on a machine with 64mb ram.

   a small executable + openh323 libs compiled as a binary was 1 mb in size.

Following the change,
 you required 256mb of memory to compile openh323
 
 the executable became multiple megabytes in size.

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A second significant change over the years has been the size of the
gnome/kde environments. My experience with old machines and new linux
distros is that it can be made to work, if 

1)I run in console only mode
   (run level 3, no X)

or

2)I run  a minimal window manager such as twm


Derek.
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On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Christophe Baegert wrote:

> Le mardi 7 Décembre 2004 21:58, Damien Sandras a écrit :
> > As I said that's the size used by GnomeMeeting + all the libraries it is
> > using and top is reporting incorrect sizes for multi-threaded programs.
> 
> you mean that the real consumption is 14M/n where n is the number of thread ?
> 
> > Anyway, I don't think 14MB is that much, gnome-terminal requires 16 MB,
> > gkrellm 11MB, ...
> 
> well, I tried to install Linux on a PIII 600 with 128MB for the children of my 
> neighbour and you can't really call that a multi-process system any more... 
> If you open 2 softwares, it's dead ! It worked with Win95 or RH 5.2...
> 
> I'm not against the progress permitted by the use of more RAM, but IMHO it 
> would be great if each software could let the user choose between 2 modes, a 
> first one RAM-hungry but faster and a second one RAM-friendly but slower... 
> And that would be even better with an environnement variable RAM_FRIENDLY=1 
> or 0 used by all the softwares...
> 
> Anyway, I love gnomemeeting ;-)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Christophe Baegert
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> 
> 

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