glib dependency for the X Server

Greg Stark gsstark at mit.edu
Mon Apr 3 21:57:17 PDT 2006


Owen Taylor <otaylor at redhat.com> writes:

> If we want the desktop to work well on low memory machines, the
> answer isn't to try to fix 100,000 code paths that might get triggered
> after the users machine sits there swapping for 15 minutes, it's to 
> fix leaks, fight bloat, make Evolution, make Firefox, realize: "Wait,
> this is a 128M machine, maybe using 160MB of memory to cache mail
> folders / images / whatever" isn't a good idea. 

But what about low memory machines?

-- 
greg




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