From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Z Smith <plinius@comcast.net>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: code bloat [was Re: Semaphore assembly-code bug]
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 15:19:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1099235990.16414.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41843E10.1040800@comcast.net>
On Sul, 2004-10-31 at 01:21, Z Smith wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > So if the desktop stuff is annoying you join gnome-love or whatever the
> > kde equivalent is 8)
>
> Or join me in my effort to limit bloat. Why use an X server
> that uses 15-30 megs of RAM when you can use FBUI which is 25 kilobytes
> of code with very minimal kmallocing?
My X server seems to be running at about 4Mbytes, plus the frame buffer
mappings which make it appear a lot larger. I wouldn't be suprised if
half the 4Mb was pixmap cache too, maybe more.
I've helped write tiny UI kits (take a look at nanogui for example) but
they don't have the flexibility of X.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-31 16:23 UTC|newest]
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2004-10-30 2:13 ` Andi Kleen
2004-10-30 9:28 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-10-30 17:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-30 21:00 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-10-30 21:14 ` code bloat [was Re: Semaphore assembly-code bug] Lee Revell
2004-10-30 22:11 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-10-30 22:25 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-31 14:06 ` Diego Calleja
2004-10-31 20:53 ` Z Smith
2004-10-31 23:35 ` Rogério Brito
2004-11-01 1:20 ` Z Smith
2004-11-01 14:48 ` Diego Calleja
2004-11-01 15:09 ` [OT] " Russell Miller
2004-10-30 22:27 ` Tim Hockin
2004-10-30 22:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-30 22:50 ` Tim Hockin
2004-10-31 20:15 ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-10-31 20:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-31 21:06 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-11-01 11:27 ` Alan Cox
2004-11-01 13:40 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-11-01 23:04 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-30 23:13 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-10-30 22:45 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-31 1:21 ` Z Smith
2004-10-31 2:47 ` Jim Nelson
2004-10-31 15:19 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-10-31 20:18 ` Z Smith
2004-11-01 11:05 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-30 23:20 ` [OT] " Lee Revell
2004-10-30 22:52 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-31 1:09 ` Ken Moffat
2004-10-31 2:42 ` Tim Connors
2004-10-31 4:45 ` Paul
2004-10-31 14:44 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-31 0:48 ` Andi Kleen
2004-10-30 23:28 ` Tim Hockin
2004-10-31 2:04 ` Michael Clark
2004-10-31 6:49 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-10-31 21:09 ` Z Smith
2004-10-31 21:13 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-10-31 21:48 ` Z Smith
2004-11-01 11:29 ` Alan Cox
2004-11-01 12:36 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-11-01 15:17 ` Lee Revell
2004-11-01 16:56 ` Kristian Høgsberg
2004-10-31 6:37 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-10-31 0:39 ` Semaphore assembly-code bug Andi Kleen
2004-10-31 1:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-31 2:04 ` Andi Kleen
2004-11-01 14:26 code bloat [was Re: Semaphore assembly-code bug] Ian Kumlien
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