On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 8:36 PM, Aditya Godbole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just got thinking for a moment today about the amount of memory that > our computer systems today use. Of course, if you are a 'computer > scientist' you can safely ignore this and say you have infinite > memory. > Anyway, for the other mortals, I remember I had a P1 with 16 MB RAM > and 32 MB swap space. I could run X, a window manager like afterstep, > a mail program like sylpheed, xchat, xmms, emacs and gcc at the same > time without any issues. The computer would start thrashing sometimes, > but it was few and far between. The point is 48 MB memory was quite > sufficient. > I had a look at my memory usage today and with a very minimal > configuration it goes to 250 MB. Firefox takes 75 MB of resident > memory! Pidgin takes about 30 MB. Konsole takes about 20 MB. Is it > that all the libs have become bloated? Is it the apps themselves? When > exactly did all of us become computer scientists? :) > > -aditya Greetings. Your system need not be as bloated as you say it is. I run an XUbuntu setup, having replaced XFCE with Xmonad. I use mc as my file manager, vim for most editing tasks, Firefox 3 for webwork, and a few other programs. You can imagine how quickly it runs on my 1GB DDR SDRAM, AMD 2000XP+ system. :) We choose our programs well. We differentiate between programs that are user friendly and those that are idiot friendly. Most of us, anyway. > > -- > ______________________________________________________________________ > Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) > List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail > Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions. > -- Kaisare, Kapil Sadashiv ------------------------------------------------------------------- [ ] Urgent [ ] Important [ ] FYI [ ] Official [ ] Work-related [ ] Personal [ ] Reply [ ] As you please [ ] Ignore ------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
