This is EXACTLY what I have been experiencing. A gig of RAM and a gig of swap is simply *not enough* to run 5 user sessions simultaneously on our terminal server. I can understand 2x memory usage inflation, but 4x? > > 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. > > I just made a test on two machines running gentoo linux. One is a > Pentium4 and the other an Amd64. On the Pentium4, nautilus uses 30,9 MB > and on the AMD64 112,7 MB which is more near four times the memory used > with the Pentium4 than 2. > The same is true for other apps: > > Pentium4 Amd64 > gnome-system-monitor 21.5 MB 112.0 MB > gnome-session 17.1 MB 85.7 MB > > and so on... > > Best regards, > > Jean > -- Manuel Amador <rudd-o@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Amauta _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
