Gaim windows port = Resource hog?

[ZombieJesus]

I don't know why but gaim is using 17 mb of ram on my system... why the hell does an im program need that much?

 

[Gurck]

Using just under 7mb here, dunno.

 

[n0cmonkey]

17MB of ram is nothing these days. Look at what IE, firefox, mozilla, thunderbird, outlook, etc., etc., etc. use. You've got a gig of ram, something should be using it. 😛

 

[Zugzwang152]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
17MB of ram is nothing these days. Look at what IE, firefox, mozilla, thunderbird, outlook, etc., etc., etc. use. You've got a gig of ram, something should be using it. 😛

exactly. i could see if you had 256MB and were trying to conserve, but 17mb? come on, one window of IE uses 24MB.

 

[erikistired]

i'm using 6mb here. not sure why yours is using 17. plugins?

 

[Zugzwang152]

by the way i forgot to mention mine is using 14MB with 1 plugin installed.

 

[Insomniak]

Open up task manager in windows, then open a file in adobe acrobat reader, put the little hand over the document, and pess and hold your left mouse button, as if you were to drag the document. Watch your CPU usage.


Lazy programmers is what it is. We have enough system that we don't really notice resource hogging - and they bank on that.

Doom 3 and Half-Life 2, two EXTREMELY well scaling pieces of software of late (esp. HL2) show how much performance you can squeeze out of a system by writing clean, efficient code. Hell, Half-Life 2 runs with pretty much everything on 2 to 3 year old rigs.

 

[Zugzwang152]

Originally posted by: Insomniak
Open up task manager in windows, then open a file in adobe acrobat reader, put the little hand over the document, and pess and hold your left mouse button, as if you were to drag the document. Watch your CPU usage.


Lazy programmers is what it is. We have enough system that we don't really notice resource hogging - and they bank on that.

Doom 3 and Half-Life 2, two EXTREMELY well scaling pieces of software of late (esp. HL2) show how much performance you can squeeze out of a system by writing clean, efficient code. Hell, Half-Life 2 runs with pretty much everything on 2 to 3 year old rigs.

if he can notice a performance hit when he has GAIM running at 17MB, then he has a right by all means to complain. otherwise, it's just a number.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: Insomniak
Doom 3 and Half-Life 2, two EXTREMELY well scaling pieces of software of late (esp. HL2) show how much performance you can squeeze out of a system by writing clean, efficient code. Hell, Half-Life 2 runs with pretty much everything on 2 to 3 year old rigs.

Clean code has nothing to do with efficient code and in fact, often they are at odds.

edit: whoops, read part wrong

 

[XBoxLPU]

Trillian is using ~5mb 😛