Discovered a new browser...
Nikolas Britton
freebsd at nbritton.org
Mon Jan 24 20:34:26 PST 2005
Tom Huppi wrote:
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>On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Cesar Mello wrote:
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>>FreeBSD is an excellent OS, I just dream with a GUI that's not as
>>heavy as currently xorg is.
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>
>Xorg seems to be the real sticking point. FreeBSD's virtual
>memory subsystem has long been very good at adjusting to limited
>resources (dunno if Linux has caught up in this respect yet.)
>Matt Dillon wrote a nice technical description of how the VM
>subsystem takes a certain number of page hits in order to gage
>usage and adjust. It was quite noticeable in terms of
>responsiveness back in the old days.
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>
There is nothing wrong with Xorg and it is lightwight, the problem is
what you run on it:
Mem: 1460K Active, 3588K Inact, 13M Wired, 7792K Buf, 471M Free
Swap: 1024M Total, 1024M Free
PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
512 root 8 0 1800K 1240K wait 0:00 0.00% 0.00% sh
513 root 96 0 2384K 1572K RUN 0:00 0.00% 0.00% top
-----------------------------------------
Mem: 13M Active, 12M Inact, 19M Wired, 13M Buf, 446M Free
Swap: 1024M Total, 1024M Free
PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
529 root 96 0 82024K 20372K select 0:01 0.58% 0.49% Xorg
528 root 8 0 2180K 1240K nanslp 0:00 0.00% 0.00% xinit
514 root 8 0 1796K 1272K wait 0:00 0.00% 0.00% sh
512 root 8 0 1804K 1244K wait 0:00 0.00% 0.00% sh
532 root 96 0 2384K 1572K RUN 0:00 0.00% 0.00% top
-----------------------------------------
Mem: 94M Active, 63M Inact, 58M Wired, 30M Cache, 60M Buf, 244M Free
Swap: 1024M Total, 1024M Free
PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
649 nbritton 96 0 96904K 35164K select 0:01 1.29% 1.07% Xorg
655 nbritton 96 0 9960K 8752K select 0:01 1.06% 0.88% gconfd-2
713 nbritton 96 0 21320K 17564K select 0:01 0.99% 0.78%
gnome-panel
739 nbritton 96 0 19552K 14444K select 0:00 0.42% 0.29%
clock-applet
720 nbritton 96 0 18472K 13500K select 0:00 0.31% 0.24%
mixer_applet2
730 nbritton 106 0 17008K 12544K select 0:00 0.13% 0.10%
gnome-netstatus-app
666 nbritton 96 0 20036K 14912K select 0:01 0.06% 0.05%
gnome-settings-daem
653 nbritton 96 0 19344K 14432K select 0:01 0.06% 0.05%
gnome-session
715 nbritton 20 0 29496K 24840K kserel 0:01 0.00% 0.00% nautilus
564 root 96 0 8364K 7128K select 0:01 0.00% 0.00% gconfd-2
728 nbritton 96 0 17316K 13184K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00%
wnck-applet
734 nbritton 96 0 16604K 12192K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00%
multiload-applet-2
662 nbritton 96 0 6008K 4260K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00%
bonobo-activation-s
690 nbritton 96 0 11336K 8184K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% metacity
679 nbritton 96 0 3448K 2712K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00%
xscreensaver
737 nbritton -8 0 2920K 1128K piperd 0:00 0.00% 0.00%
libgtop_server2
722 nbritton 20 0 9384K 6520K kserel 0:00 0.00% 0.00%
gnome-vfs-daemon
660 nbritton 96 0 3484K 2908K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% esd
-----------------------------------------
Mem: 115M Active, 79M Inact, 60M Wired, 30M Cache, 60M Buf, 205M Free
Swap: 1024M Total, 1024M Free
PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
649 nbritton 96 0 99028K 38268K select 0:02 0.90% 0.88% Xorg
690 nbritton 96 0 13964K 10644K select 0:00 0.15% 0.15% metacity
728 nbritton 96 0 19244K 15188K select 0:01 0.05% 0.05%
wnck-applet
908 nbritton 20 0 40700K 34812K kserel 0:02 0.00% 0.00%
firefox-bin
715 nbritton 20 0 29496K 24840K kserel 0:01 0.00% 0.00% nautilus
655 nbritton 96 0 9960K 8752K select 0:01 0.00% 0.00% gconfd-2
713 nbritton 96 0 21352K 17584K select 0:01 0.00% 0.00%
gnome-panel
564 root 96 0 8364K 7128K select 0:01 0.00% 0.00% gconfd-2
730 nbritton 99 0 17008K 12632K select 0:01 0.00% 0.00%
gnome-netstatus-app
666 nbritton 96 0 20036K 14912K select 0:01 0.00% 0.00%
gnome-settings-daem
653 nbritton 96 0 19344K 14436K select 0:01 0.00% 0.00%
gnome-session
739 nbritton 96 0 19552K 14444K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00%
clock-applet
720 nbritton 96 0 18472K 13500K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00%
mixer_applet2
737 nbritton -8 0 2920K 1128K piperd 0:00 0.00% 0.00%
libgtop_server2
734 nbritton 96 0 16604K 12272K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00%
multiload-applet-2
662 nbritton 96 0 6008K 4260K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00%
bonobo-activation-s
679 nbritton 96 0 3448K 2712K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00%
xscreensaver
660 nbritton 96 0 3484K 2908K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% esd
-----------------------------------------
Mem: 133M Active, 97M Inact, 63M Wired, 29M Cache, 60M Buf, 167M Free
Swap: 1024M Total, 1024M Free
PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
649 nbritton 96 0 98M 42512K select 0:03 2.11% 2.10% Xorg
1047 nbritton 20 0 58480K 39668K kserel 0:03 0.00% 0.00%
thunderbird-bin
908 nbritton 20 0 40700K 34816K kserel 0:02 0.00% 0.00%
firefox-bin
715 nbritton 20 0 29496K 24840K kserel 0:01 0.00% 0.00% nautilus
655 nbritton 96 0 9960K 8752K select 0:01 0.00% 0.00% gconfd-2
713 nbritton 96 0 21352K 17596K select 0:01 0.00% 0.00%
gnome-panel
564 root 96 0 8364K 7128K select 0:01 0.00% 0.00% gconfd-2
730 nbritton 107 0 17008K 12632K select 0:01 0.00% 0.00%
gnome-netstatus-app
728 nbritton 96 0 19244K 15188K select 0:01 0.00% 0.00%
wnck-applet
666 nbritton 96 0 20036K 14912K select 0:01 0.00% 0.00%
gnome-settings-daem
653 nbritton 96 0 19344K 14436K select 0:01 0.00% 0.00%
gnome-session
739 nbritton 96 0 19552K 14444K select 0:01 0.00% 0.00%
clock-applet
720 nbritton 96 0 18472K 13500K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00%
mixer_applet2
690 nbritton 96 0 13964K 10580K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% metacity
737 nbritton -8 0 2920K 1128K piperd 0:00 0.00% 0.00%
libgtop_server2
734 nbritton 96 0 16604K 12272K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00%
multiload-applet-2
662 nbritton 96 0 6008K 4260K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00%
bonobo-activation-s
679 nbritton 96 0 3448K 2712K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00%
xscreensaver
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