Re: FC3 sucks. It takes up too much memory!

[Leonardo Maguetas Devai]

I have heard that OO is written in Java too!
And I believed, because OO is so damn slow indeed :(

On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 10:13 -0600, Thomas Cameron wrote:

>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: <akonstam(a)trinity.edu&gt;
>  To: "James Mckenzie" <jjmckenzie51(a)earthlink.net>; "For users of
> Fedora Core 
>  releases" <fedora-list(a)redhat.com&gt;
>  Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 10:11 AM
>  Subject: Re: FC3 sucks. It takes up too much memory!
>  
>  
>  > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 08:57:11AM -0700, James Mckenzie wrote:
>  >> > > > James Mckenzie wrote:
>  >> > > >
>  >> > > >
>  >> > I don't have those two options in jdk.config. I do find the following
>  >> > options in cbulder.config:
>  >> >
>  >> > vmparam -Xms32m
>  >> Minumum memory per load: 32MB
>  >> > vmparam -Xmx256m
>  >> Maximum memory per load: 256MB
>  >> >
>  >> > So I wonder why the JVM instance invoked by CBX takes up more than
>  >> > 400mb memory?
>  >> >
>  >> This looks like a problem with either Java or Cbuilder and definately not 
>  >> LINUX or FC.
>  >>
>  > But I hear from the usual unreliable sources that OpenOffice is
>  > written in Java. So if OpenOffice is part of Fedora it seems to me its
>  > a Fedora problem also. There is no question in my experience that an
>  > installation of everything thing in the FC3 (or even FC2)
>  > distribution) leads to a bloated system. And saying  XP systems after
>  > SP2 are also bloated does not make me feel better.
>  
>  I haven't heard that OO is written in Java.  Even if it is - one third-party 
>  application does not make the whole distro suck.
>  
>  Thomas 
>