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Date:      Mon, 24 Jan 2005 22:34:24 -0600
From:      Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org>
To:        Tom Huppi <thuppi@huppi.com>
Cc:        freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Discovered a new browser...
Message-ID:  <41F5CC50.90406@nbritton.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.58.0501232132010.62842@nuumen.pair.com>
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Tom Huppi wrote:

>
>On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Cesar Mello wrote:
>
>  
>
>>FreeBSD is an excellent OS, I just dream with a GUI that's not as
>>heavy as currently xorg is.
>>    
>>
>
>Xorg seems to be the real sticking point.  FreeBSD's virtual
>memory subsystem has long been very good at adjusting to limited
>resources (dunno if Linux has caught up in this respect yet.)
>Matt Dillon wrote a nice technical description of how the VM
>subsystem takes a certain number of page hits in order to gage
>usage and adjust.  It was quite noticeable in terms of
>responsiveness back in the old days.
>
>  
>

There is nothing wrong with Xorg and it is lightwight, the problem is 
what you run on it:

Mem: 1460K Active, 3588K Inact, 13M Wired, 7792K Buf, 471M Free
Swap: 1024M Total, 1024M Free

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
  512 root       8    0  1800K  1240K wait     0:00  0.00%  0.00% sh
  513 root      96    0  2384K  1572K RUN      0:00  0.00%  0.00% top
-----------------------------------------
Mem: 13M Active, 12M Inact, 19M Wired, 13M Buf, 446M Free
Swap: 1024M Total, 1024M Free

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
  529 root      96    0 82024K 20372K select   0:01  0.58%  0.49% Xorg
  528 root       8    0  2180K  1240K nanslp   0:00  0.00%  0.00% xinit
  514 root       8    0  1796K  1272K wait     0:00  0.00%  0.00% sh
  512 root       8    0  1804K  1244K wait     0:00  0.00%  0.00% sh
  532 root      96    0  2384K  1572K RUN      0:00  0.00%  0.00% top
-----------------------------------------
Mem: 94M Active, 63M Inact, 58M Wired, 30M Cache, 60M Buf, 244M Free
Swap: 1024M Total, 1024M Free

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
  649 nbritton  96    0 96904K 35164K select   0:01  1.29%  1.07% Xorg
  655 nbritton  96    0  9960K  8752K select   0:01  1.06%  0.88% gconfd-2
  713 nbritton  96    0 21320K 17564K select   0:01  0.99%  0.78% 
gnome-panel
  739 nbritton  96    0 19552K 14444K select   0:00  0.42%  0.29% 
clock-applet
  720 nbritton  96    0 18472K 13500K select   0:00  0.31%  0.24% 
mixer_applet2
  730 nbritton 106    0 17008K 12544K select   0:00  0.13%  0.10% 
gnome-netstatus-app
  666 nbritton  96    0 20036K 14912K select   0:01  0.06%  0.05% 
gnome-settings-daem
  653 nbritton  96    0 19344K 14432K select   0:01  0.06%  0.05% 
gnome-session
  715 nbritton  20    0 29496K 24840K kserel   0:01  0.00%  0.00% nautilus
  564 root      96    0  8364K  7128K select   0:01  0.00%  0.00% gconfd-2
  728 nbritton  96    0 17316K 13184K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% 
wnck-applet
  734 nbritton  96    0 16604K 12192K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% 
multiload-applet-2
  662 nbritton  96    0  6008K  4260K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% 
bonobo-activation-s
  690 nbritton  96    0 11336K  8184K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% metacity
  679 nbritton  96    0  3448K  2712K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% 
xscreensaver
  737 nbritton  -8    0  2920K  1128K piperd   0:00  0.00%  0.00% 
libgtop_server2
  722 nbritton  20    0  9384K  6520K kserel   0:00  0.00%  0.00% 
gnome-vfs-daemon
  660 nbritton  96    0  3484K  2908K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% esd
-----------------------------------------
Mem: 115M Active, 79M Inact, 60M Wired, 30M Cache, 60M Buf, 205M Free
Swap: 1024M Total, 1024M Free

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
  649 nbritton  96    0 99028K 38268K select   0:02  0.90%  0.88% Xorg
  690 nbritton  96    0 13964K 10644K select   0:00  0.15%  0.15% metacity
  728 nbritton  96    0 19244K 15188K select   0:01  0.05%  0.05% 
wnck-applet
  908 nbritton  20    0 40700K 34812K kserel   0:02  0.00%  0.00% 
firefox-bin
  715 nbritton  20    0 29496K 24840K kserel   0:01  0.00%  0.00% nautilus
  655 nbritton  96    0  9960K  8752K select   0:01  0.00%  0.00% gconfd-2
  713 nbritton  96    0 21352K 17584K select   0:01  0.00%  0.00% 
gnome-panel
  564 root      96    0  8364K  7128K select   0:01  0.00%  0.00% gconfd-2
  730 nbritton  99    0 17008K 12632K select   0:01  0.00%  0.00% 
gnome-netstatus-app
  666 nbritton  96    0 20036K 14912K select   0:01  0.00%  0.00% 
gnome-settings-daem
  653 nbritton  96    0 19344K 14436K select   0:01  0.00%  0.00% 
gnome-session
  739 nbritton  96    0 19552K 14444K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% 
clock-applet
  720 nbritton  96    0 18472K 13500K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% 
mixer_applet2
  737 nbritton  -8    0  2920K  1128K piperd   0:00  0.00%  0.00% 
libgtop_server2
  734 nbritton  96    0 16604K 12272K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% 
multiload-applet-2
  662 nbritton  96    0  6008K  4260K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% 
bonobo-activation-s
  679 nbritton  96    0  3448K  2712K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% 
xscreensaver
  660 nbritton  96    0  3484K  2908K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% esd
-----------------------------------------
Mem: 133M Active, 97M Inact, 63M Wired, 29M Cache, 60M Buf, 167M Free
Swap: 1024M Total, 1024M Free

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
  649 nbritton  96    0    98M 42512K select   0:03  2.11%  2.10% Xorg
 1047 nbritton  20    0 58480K 39668K kserel   0:03  0.00%  0.00% 
thunderbird-bin
  908 nbritton  20    0 40700K 34816K kserel   0:02  0.00%  0.00% 
firefox-bin
  715 nbritton  20    0 29496K 24840K kserel   0:01  0.00%  0.00% nautilus
  655 nbritton  96    0  9960K  8752K select   0:01  0.00%  0.00% gconfd-2
  713 nbritton  96    0 21352K 17596K select   0:01  0.00%  0.00% 
gnome-panel
  564 root      96    0  8364K  7128K select   0:01  0.00%  0.00% gconfd-2
  730 nbritton 107    0 17008K 12632K select   0:01  0.00%  0.00% 
gnome-netstatus-app
  728 nbritton  96    0 19244K 15188K select   0:01  0.00%  0.00% 
wnck-applet
  666 nbritton  96    0 20036K 14912K select   0:01  0.00%  0.00% 
gnome-settings-daem
  653 nbritton  96    0 19344K 14436K select   0:01  0.00%  0.00% 
gnome-session
  739 nbritton  96    0 19552K 14444K select   0:01  0.00%  0.00% 
clock-applet
  720 nbritton  96    0 18472K 13500K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% 
mixer_applet2
  690 nbritton  96    0 13964K 10580K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% metacity
  737 nbritton  -8    0  2920K  1128K piperd   0:00  0.00%  0.00% 
libgtop_server2
  734 nbritton  96    0 16604K 12272K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% 
multiload-applet-2
  662 nbritton  96    0  6008K  4260K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% 
bonobo-activation-s
  679 nbritton  96    0  3448K  2712K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% 
xscreensaver



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