On Sat, 01 Dec 2007, Callum Lerwick wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 22:11 +0000, Martin Ebourne wrote: > > I agree with you completely about the memory usage of Fedora 8, it has > > got VERY bloated recently. > > I remember when I popped 512mb into my system back around 2002. Was > running Red Hat 8 as I recall. I never, ever got the thing to use more > than half of it. No matter how many tabs I opened in Mozilla, no matter > how many kernels I compiled, I had a good 256mb worth of disk cache at > all times, and it never hit swap. I remember losing entire 100mb files > because that machine was a bit flaky and would hang sometimes, with the > file never being written to disk. I got into a habit of typing 'sync' a > few times after doing anything important, a habit I still have to this > day. > > So now I'm sitting on a laptop with 512mb, running Fedora 8. I'm running > Galeon and Evolution, and they're eating up 304M RAM and 428M swap. > I recently upgraded a 3 1/2 year old laptop with 512MiB to Fedora 8 and the level of memory usage when running nothing but Firefox seemed to cause frequent stalls when it was completely unresponsive for 30 seconds at a time. Admittedly this is only anecdotal evidence, but this doesn't happen on a newer one with 2GiB. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
