Hi, I've recently upgraded my laptop (dell 8500, 2.4GHz P4, 1GB ram, nvidia with the stock nv driver, not the closed source nvidia.) from FC1 to FC3. I'm really impressed with the progress but I have one major issue - the memory usage of some of the applications. OpenOffice is definitly the worst but here it goes: Example OpenOffice: Starting OpenOffice $ ps -eo"comm,vsize,rss" | grep soffice soffice.bin 143976 51996 Opening a 9 page document with very simple layout (25000 characters) $ ps -eo"comm,vsize,rss" | grep soffice soffice.bin 157708 68780 After typing the word hert and the rightclicking to get corrections: $ ps -eo"comm,vsize,rss" | grep soffice soffice.bin 323336 234440 Example Mozilla: Just after starting mozilla I see this: $ ps -eo"comm,vsize,rss" | grep mozilla mozilla-bin 97084 29392 After just visiting /. for a few stories the memory usage has grown to $ ps -eo"comm,vsize,rss" | grep mozilla mozilla-bin 142016 44528 Example Kmail Starting Kmail: $ ps -eo"comm,vsize,rss" | grep kmail kmail 44352 24276 After viewing 15 emails from ebay: $ ps -eo"comm,vsize,rss" | grep kmail kmail 49796 30760 After viewing 100 random emails (about 30% html, 70% plain text) $ ps -eo"comm,vsize,rss" | grep kmail kmail 69144 47132 Viewing the same 100 emails one more time: $ ps -eo"comm,vsize,rss" | grep kmail kmail 78956 53624 Is anyone seeing the same problem - and if so, figured out what to do? Peter.
