FC3 sucks. It takes up too much memory!

Larry Meyers globalbility at gmail.com
Wed Feb 2 16:26:28 UTC 2005


I agree, one third-party application does not make the whole distro suck.
But I also understand your frustration.


On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 14:17:52 -0200, Leonardo Maguetas Devai
<leonardo at lbc.ludwig.org.br> wrote:
>  I have heard that OO is written in Java too!
>  And I believed, because OO is so damn slow indeed :(
> 
>  
>  On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 10:13 -0600, Thomas Cameron wrote: 
>  ----- Original Message ----- From: <akonstam at trinity.edu> To: "James
> Mckenzie" <jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net>; "For users of Fedora Core releases"
> <fedora-list at redhat.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 10:11 AM
> Subject: Re: FC3 sucks. It takes up too much memory! > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005
> at 08:57:11AM -0700, James Mckenzie wrote: >> > > > James Mckenzie wrote: >>
> > > > >> > > > >> > I don't have those two options in jdk.config. I do find
> the following >> > options in cbulder.config: >> > >> > vmparam -Xms32m >>
> Minumum memory per load: 32MB >> > vmparam -Xmx256m >> Maximum memory per
> load: 256MB >> > >> > So I wonder why the JVM instance invoked by CBX takes
> up more than >> > 400mb memory? >> > >> This looks like a problem with
> either Java or Cbuilder and definately not >> LINUX or FC. >> > But I hear
> from the usual unreliable sources that OpenOffice is > written in Java. So
> if OpenOffice is part of Fedora it seems to me its > a Fedora problem also.
> There is no question in my experience that an > installation of everything
> thing in the FC3 (or even FC2) > distribution) leads to a bloated system.
> And saying XP systems after > SP2 are also bloated does not make me feel
> better. I haven't heard that OO is written in Java. Even if it is - one
> third-party application does not make the whole distro suck. Thomas 
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-Larry




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