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FWIW I spent 6 months running Gnome 3.0 on a laptop with a core 2 duo, intel graphics, and 4GB of RAM without noticing any performance problems.
by sciurus 15y ago
FWIW I spent 6 months running Gnome 3.0 on a laptop with a core 2 duo, intel graphics, and 4GB of RAM without noticing any performance problems.
- rogerbinns 15y agoThat is the exact same spec as my laptop. I don't actually notice performance problems from gnome shell because I spend most of my time typing with short bursts of compilation etc. But when running top, gnome shell is always up there and has accumulated a huge amount of CPU time. More than X and the web browsers put together usually. Memory consumption varies so where I notice problems is when things have been swapped out because of gnome shell memory usage. I've never had it around 10gb but Alan Cox has https://plus.google.com/111104121194250082892/posts/5f5XXtRGKns https://plus.google.com/111104121194250082892/posts/5f5XXtRG...