[geeks] Itanium 32 bit performace.... hahahaha

[jdboyd at jdboyd.zill.net]

On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 10:15:35PM -0500, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:

> I'm running Gnome 2.4.1, and trying to give it a fair long-term test.
> 
> It's kinda hard, as this thing is pig-city.
> 
> Much improved over earlier releases, but wow... 
> 
> With just a few Ami documents, Mozilla, and misc applications open
> yesterday, I was up to 700MB of virtual memory used.
> 
> I had to create a temporary 512MB swap file to keep going until I could
> safely shut some things down.
> 
> Some of the Gnome code is *horrible*, and its hard to figure out how it
> could need as much memory as it does.

A lot of it is horrible.  When I was digging around lots of programs did
stupid things like reload graphics that were already in memory.  Ick.