[TriLUG] fedora 7 & 8 slowness?

[John Mitchell]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 3:53 PM, James c. Jones <jonesjc at intrex.net> wrote:
>  From what you are saying, I need to revert to fedora core 5, ubuntu or
>  even mepis, to get back to a reasonable response time with my 256 mb of ram.
>

   You need to become very good at finding out how much memory
programs use. For example (I just fired up Ubuntu 7.10, all I have
here at work) Gnome Terminal on Gnome System Monitor shows a memory
size of 12.6 MEGs (right, MEGS) for a terminal. I tend to use rxvt for
my terminals which only needs 382K. Under 'top' and the RES,
gnome-terminal shows 11 Megs of ram.

johnm