On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 12:31 -0500, Manuel Amador wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Well, it's been a long time since I've posted anything to these lists. > Excuse me for the cross-posting, please. > > Has anyone noticed the memory usage of GNOME applications under 64-bit > Athlon 64? I'm using Fedora Core 3, and I am seeing 260MB VIRT and 70MB > RSS memory footprints on e.g. Evo and Nautilus. Compiling for 64bit means doubling the size of all pointers. This is likely to use a lot more memory. You might want to try running a 32bit binary of the applications to see if this explains the memory use difference. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alexander Larsson Red Hat, Inc alexl@xxxxxxxxxx alla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx He's a benighted chivalrous Green Beret searching for his wife's true killer. She's a tortured hip-hop detective in the wrong place at the wrong time. They fight crime! _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list