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Newer page: | version 13 | Last edited on Monday, June 1, 2009 4:10:38 pm | by LawrenceDoliveiro | |
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|rhythmbox|65356KB|18MB|781 songs in playlist
|gedit|24708MB|17MB|on startup, no files open
Granted they are sharing lots of memory with other processes, but the amount of memory allocated solely for each program still seems quite large - gedit is using 7MB of its own just to display a menu, toolbar, and a text area for typing!
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+And then there’s [Proprietary] software, which seems determined to make modern hardware run just as slowly as old hardware. Read [The Great Moore’s Law Compensator|http://www.infoworld.com/t/applications/fat-fatter-fattest-microsofts-kings-bloat-278], and weep...