Re: [PLUG] Bloat

2008-10-01 Thread Aditya Godbole
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 10:48 PM, Kapil Kaisare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 8:36 PM, Aditya Godbole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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

Re: [PLUG] Bloat

2008-10-01 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Aditya Godbole wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Shridhar Daithankar > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Monday 29 September 2008 20:36:17 Aditya Godbole wrote: >> >> No. Thing is the memory usage varies with amount of installed RAM, at least >> in >> linux. If you have same installation o

Re: [PLUG] Bloat

2008-10-01 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday 01 October 2008 10:15:46 Aditya Godbole wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Shridhar Daithankar > > No. Thing is the memory usage varies with amount of installed RAM, at > > least in linux. If you have same installation on a 512MB RAM and 128 MB > > RAM machine and start identic

Re: [PLUG] Bloat

2008-10-01 Thread Kapil Kaisare
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. > Anyw

Re: [PLUG] Bloat

2008-10-01 Thread Sujeet Ghanvat
Hi Aditya,Nice observation. It can be explained with slightly modified Parkinson's law : "Data expands to fill the space available for storage" Its going to happen more in future. Paul Graham has nicely talked about it in his article Hundred-

Re: [PLUG] Bloat

2008-09-30 Thread Aditya Godbole
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Shridhar Daithankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 29 September 2008 20:36:17 Aditya Godbole wrote: > > No. Thing is the memory usage varies with amount of installed RAM, at least in > linux. If you have same installation on a 512MB RAM and 128 MB RAM machi

Re: [PLUG] Bloat

2008-09-29 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Monday 29 September 2008 20:36:17 Aditya Godbole wrote: > 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?

[PLUG] Bloat

2008-09-29 Thread Aditya Godbole
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.