Re: Crappy memory usage in Ubuntu.

Conrad Knauer wrote:
> With Firefox, if you're using the Breezy packages, you're still using
> 1.0.x, which as I recall was more leaky than 1.5.0.x... plus
> extensions are notorious for having memory leaks.

Yes, but I don't use Breezy packages ;) I have *my* Mozilla (1.7) and
*my* FireFox (1.5) installed in my ~ directory :)

Basically, I'm using all the same software except KDE (3.5.2 instead of
Slack's 3.5.1) and Xorg, which is 6.8.2 instead of 6.9 -- and TOP says
is using about 300mb more RAM that Xorg 6.9 used.

>> I'm sure Conrad will tell me that Dapper will fix this :)
>
> Dapper *may well* fix this; they're going for stability over
> innovation in it, though off the top of my head I don't know about
> your specific case. The best way for you to test without messing up
> your install is of course to try a Live CD for a while and see if it
> behaves better... The latest one is
> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/dapper/flight-7/ (though flight 8
> might be out in a few days)

Slick, I can run that in VMWare :D

>> Is Dapper 6.9 or 7.0 Xorg?
>
>
> As per http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=ubuntu its 7.0

Slick. I hope udev is also working in Dapper.
Received on Tue May 16 12:11:42 2006