2008/11/8, Stu Tomlinson <stu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > - It is the 2nd largest memory consuming application running (after firefox) > > using up 10% of my total memory: > > 6698 paul 20 0 843m 96m 15m S 0.0 9.6 16:43.17 pidgin > > And I am not a super consumer, only 25 friends and 5 irc channels online now. Oh come on! It's just a GTK applications (with, as usual, poor desing, which in turn leads to high memory usage due to poor allocators, complex internal structure, which leads to bugs which cannot be fixed even by maintainers months and years, and so on). Take a look - this is a Firefox with switched off memory cache and 8 opened tabs. 26819 petro 20 0 449m 299m 21m S 0.3 59.7 6:32.90 firefox If we'll start complaining about memory consumption of GTK-based monsters we'll spend all free time in useless conversations. You shoud try to use some better alternatives. Try Psi, for example. In any case there are tons of better XMPP clients (you're not using proprietary protocols like oscar/msn/aim/etc, are you?). In case of Firefox we don't have such obvious variants to switch to (mainly due to Firefox extensions - real killer feature of this memory hungry beast). BTW does someone knows about those unlucky ISVs, who based significant part of their business on GTK? -- With best regards! -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
