Browsers

Ben Pfaff pfaffben@msu.edu
28 Jul 2000 10:41:22 -0400


Edward Glowacki <glowack2@msu.edu> writes:

> On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Mike Rambo wrote:
> > Of course ktop takes up 7 Meg and significantly more cpu time than any
> > other process on my machine at the moment.  Ah - the curse of the GUI.
> 
> Woo, gtop reports itself at 4.5mb!  See!  Gnome is better than KDE!!!! ;)

Probably most of both gtop and ktop is shared libraries, though.
I bet that their actual memory footprint besides these is pretty
small.  I note that `top' itself is only a 35kB executable but
takes up 1.2 MB of memory (RSS).
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