[GRLUG] Desktop managers

[Michael Mol]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 9:48 PM, Adam Tauno WIlliams
<awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
> Is the disk light constantly going?  Curious what the performance
> constraint is;  if you run "top" in a terminal window does it show your
> CPU as consistently pegged?
>
> I've never found that GNOME-XFCE-whatever ever delivered much of a
> real-world performance improvement.  Most of the time, if performance
> can be fixed, it can be fixed by other means.  But if you just don't
> have enough resources.... the small difference between window managers
> isn't going to make much of a dent.

Running a modern GNOME desktop on 310MB of RAM is bad news.  I'd be
curious how much memory metacity and gdm were consuming, and what the
output of "free -m" is after logging in without loading any
applications.  I found GNOME to be sluggish on 512MB of RAM as well,
which was when I switched to wmii on my 2.4GHz P4.

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