FreeBSD 5.3 with Gnome work slow

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 00:19 +0200, Kiraly Zoltan wrote:
> I have an Intel Pentium III, 500MHz and 256MB Ram PC. I want to use this 
> PC as FreeBSD desktop but FreeBSD 5.3 work slow with "gnome" and "xfce".
> 
> FreeBSD 5.3 use 187MB of 256MB Ram with Gnome 2.8, and Fedora Linux use 
> 100MB of 256MB with Gnome 2.8.
> 
> This is my process list when Gnome run on FreeBSD 5.3 :
> 
> Name and Used memory
> 
> -------------------------------
> 
> gconfd-2 - 6.8 MB
> clock-applet - 2.0 MB
> nautilus - 4.0 MB
> gnome-pannel - 3.3 MB
> gnome-system-monitor - 3.0MB
> metacity - 2.3 MB
> gnome-setting-daem - 1.5 MB
> sendmail - 1.1 MB
> mixer_applet2 - 1.1 MB
> Xorg - 11.5 MB
> gnome-session - 2.5 MB
> 
> I have more process not listed here but not use more than 1 MB. I see 
> xorg eat much -> 11.5 MB
> 
> Anyone have an idea, what need to do to decrease memory usage in freebsd 
> ? i want to work fast in FreeBSD because i see Fedora Linux work fast 
> and i think my configuration is enough for Gnome or Xfce.
> 
> I want to choose FreeBSD as desktop solution because i like BSD better 
> than Linux.
> 
> Any idea to solve this problem ? i want to increase speed in FreeBSD

Don't run gnome-system-monitor.  It will seriously bog down your system
on FreeBSD.

Joe

> 
> Thank you very much !
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