FC3 sucks. It takes up too much memory!

[Thomas Cameron]

----- 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