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Date:      Tue, 22 Mar 2005 00:59:48 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Kiraly Zoltan <yo2lux@metawire.org>
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 5.3 with Gnome work slow
Message-ID:  <1111471188.78615.23.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <422CD386.7050801@metawire.org>
References:  <422CD386.7050801@metawire.org>

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On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 00:19 +0200, Kiraly Zoltan wrote:
> I have an Intel Pentium III, 500MHz and 256MB Ram PC. I want to use this=20
> PC as FreeBSD desktop but FreeBSD 5.3 work slow with "gnome" and "xfce".
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> FreeBSD 5.3 use 187MB of 256MB Ram with Gnome 2.8, and Fedora Linux use=20
> 100MB of 256MB with Gnome 2.8.
>=20
> This is my process list when Gnome run on FreeBSD 5.3 :
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> Name and Used memory
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> -------------------------------
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> gconfd-2 - 6.8 MB
> clock-applet - 2.0 MB
> nautilus - 4.0 MB
> gnome-pannel - 3.3 MB
> gnome-system-monitor - 3.0MB
> metacity - 2.3 MB
> gnome-setting-daem - 1.5 MB
> sendmail - 1.1 MB
> mixer_applet2 - 1.1 MB
> Xorg - 11.5 MB
> gnome-session - 2.5 MB
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> I have more process not listed here but not use more than 1 MB. I see=20
> xorg eat much -> 11.5 MB
>=20
> Anyone have an idea, what need to do to decrease memory usage in freebsd=20
> ? i want to work fast in FreeBSD because i see Fedora Linux work fast=20
> and i think my configuration is enough for Gnome or Xfce.
>=20
> I want to choose FreeBSD as desktop solution because i like BSD better=20
> than Linux.
>=20
> Any idea to solve this problem ? i want to increase speed in FreeBSD

Don't run gnome-system-monitor.  It will seriously bog down your system
on FreeBSD.

Joe

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> Thank you very much !
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