On 17-Jul-10 06:45:16, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 07/17/2010 01:31 PM, David wrote: >> On 7/17/2010 1:28 AM, john wendel wrote: >>> >>> Not sure if anyone cares, but I just got 25 desktops working >>> on an LXDE box, so much for Gnome. But I really like KDE and I >>> only use 2 desktops. >> >> I still think it has to do with resources. :-) > > The only resource that would make sense is memory. So, it would > follow that reducing available memory would reduce the number of > workspaces needed to cause the crash. Yes? > > Since my F13 is a VM I reduced its memory from 1G to 512MB. > > The symptoms does not change. It will experience a metacity crash > when 18 workspaces are defined but will only crash on using > ctrl+alt+< or >. I also doubt that it has to do with resources. As I described when I first posted about the problem, when I install a Debian 5.0 (Lenny) system on the same machine, again using standard Gnome, there is no problem with 20 workspaces. That machine has (at present) 1GB of RAM. When I identified the problem, there were no other applications running except the Gnome interface that one gets immediately after login -- I had just logged in, As further evidence, I also run Gnome on a Debian 4.0 (Etch) in a VM on another machine, and I have given it 1GB of RAM, and here again I have 20 workspaces. I can have many applications running at the same time on this VM, including RAM-hungry intensive computations, and have never had a memory problem. One might argue that Gnome on an older Debian is not the same thing as Gnome on Fedora 13, so perhaps not a basis for comparison; but that same argument lends itself to the conclusion that there is something wrong with Gnome on Fedora 13. If the problem really does reflect a resources issue, then I would be inclined to suspect a memory leak problem, or a bug in 'malloc' calls when the number of workspaces is increased. Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 17-Jul-10 Time: 09:24:14 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
