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Clutter

Posted Nov 10, 2009 16:57 UTC (Tue) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: Clutter by eru
Parent article: GNOME 3.0 in September 2010

> Nautilus takes up 50M.

Actually it sounds like he does not know how to properly gauge memory usage.

My Nautilus has a 76M Virtual Memory reserved. However the amount of memory
it is actually using is 25M. Out of that 15M is shared with other Gnome
applications. It uses about 4MB of X memory.

So Resident Memory - Shared Memory + X Memory = Actual Memory usage required
to run Nautilus. Which is just about 14 - 15 MB. That is how much I would
save if I killed Nautilus off.

It's a big application, but not a huge deal.

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Clutter

Posted Nov 10, 2009 18:30 UTC (Tue) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020) [Link]

If you all would have actually read his comment, he says that he is saving 50M of disk space by not having it installed, not RAM by running it.

Clutter

Posted Nov 10, 2009 19:35 UTC (Tue) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

Well sorry.

But that makes even less sense. Why care how much disk space it uses? 50
megs is insignificant.