LTSP

Posted Aug 12, 2005 13:55 UTC (Fri) by ringerc (subscriber, #3071)
In reply to: It's about time... by jabby
Parent article: Our bloat problem

My experience with LTSP at work is that the KDE and XFCE desktops both use minimal RAM. KDE seems to use a scarily small amount of additional RAM per instance after the first one - good use of static read only data etc I suspect.

OO.o, firefox, and Evolution, however, are lethal. Evolution in particular uses awe-inspiring amounts of RAM when working with large IMAP mailboxes. I've clocked it at > 250MB.

GNOME doesn't seem to be too bad with RAM use either. It looks a lot like the real issue is the apps.