Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (422 mails)

[Hans Witvliet <hwit@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 15:56 +0000, Rob OpenSuSE wrote:
> 2009/1/11 Putrycz, Erik <Erik.Putrycz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > > On old systems, bloat was causing a few megabytes of extra memory
> > > access, now it can be 100-400MB.  And it's no 11 cycles, but CPUs wait
> > > 100's on cache misses, never mind if there's a page fault and disk
> > > access involved.
> >
> > In my experience, it takes 2 generation of software to get things right.
>
> Someone has experessed the opinion that memory consumption is escalating.
It wasn't me, but i've said it a number of times.
I know that the price of mem and cpu is constantly dropping, but that
should never be  an excuse from a runaway OS-footprint.

Some applications need much mem, No problem with that.
And if you run a lot of them cocurrently, its your own fault.

One of the problems was getting seriously at the 10.1 release, was that
a number of nice applications were installed automatically. Thankfully
this unrequested eyecandy is dropped,
But it always remains a tradeoff between ease of installation for
newbees, and the hassle of detecting and removing unwanted stuff.
Even more when it is tangled with strange dependencies.

Advertising all of the (new) eye-candy is nice, bluntly installing them
is something else, not?

hw
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