On Jun 15 2005, David E. Fox wrote: > Still, the load time doesn't bother me all that much, even though I"m > running a relatively underpowered machine by today's standards (Athlon > 1000 mhz). I do have quite a bit of RAM here (768 megs), though.
Underpowered machine? If that is underpowered, then, please, I accept donations of underpowered hardware from any poster of this list. :-) > Which parts of libraries will likely be "evicted" from RAM when it > becomes necessary -- or even if not. Only the really needed parts of > libraries are really brought in. Some KDE apps do bring in more > libraries than "traditional" (non-KDE) tools, for instance: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ldd `which konsole` | wc -l > 40 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ldd `which xterm` | wc -l > 19 Looking towards minimizing the amount of memory used by my system, I have now decided to use rxvt-unicode in daemon mode (together with fluxbox and the "Minimal" style). This way, according to top, I save a non-negligible amount of memory gained regarding what I used to have when I was using many instances of rxvt (the vanilla version). BTW, here is what my system shows: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ldd `which urxvt` | wc -l 12 I have not been a user of vanilla xterm for ages, since I am usually very tight on RAM and find it with way too many bells and whistles to do just what I wanted. > But, as another poster pointed out, there are shared similarities among > various components of a desktop environment, and because of shared > memory, one might only haev a single copy of a library shared among those > components at any one time. That is true, indeed, but I have not quantified it yet. But the zillion daemons running and polluting my home directory with unwanted dot-files (or, worse, unwanted files under dot-directories) is a thing that turns me down. :-( For instance, the fact that opening up some GTK 2.0-based applications starts gconfd-2 is really annoying, IMO. But with KDE it seems that the daemon-proliferation is much worse (at least the last time I checked). As it may be obvious from my e-mail, I am an old-school Unix user. I have tried to switch to the "new modus operandi" of treating my computer as a tool and ignoring what is driving it (so that I could be more productive---or, at least, I thought so), but I couldn't stand the limitations that I felt. :-( Just my 2 cents, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
