Is Gnome becoming a Microsoft project?

[Andrew Haley]

On 07/20/2012 12:36 AM, Veeti Paananen wrote:
> Speaking of RAM, I try to avoid Java-based desktop applications like the
> plague because almost every single one of them seems to hog up a minimum
> of 100MB (and usually more) of RAM immediately.

Are you sure that really is RSS?  Java maps a big block of NORESERVE
memory on startup bit it's not necessarily used.  A lot of people
looks at memory dumps and say "It's using hundreds of megabytes!"
No it's not.

Andrew.