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Omnios
August 6th, 2005, 11:08 PM
This is more than a list of Power Hogs. This is a place to complain about whats dragging your system down. Hopefully we can Identify the biggest offenders and hopefully make and find suggestions. Please state the WN you are using and the system hog offender.

Note if I had a 3ghz with a gig ram this would not make a difference but im not so.

RIght now my biggest beaf is with clock applet, memory- 17.6mb, virtual memory- 17.6mb, resident memory- 8.6mb, shared memory- 6.8mb.

I realy like the clock app but dont want it running like it is, be nice if the calander launched like a seperate app

Cant state the numbers on the backport clam anti-virus but all its deamons and components where taking up huge amounts of ram, after uninstall I noticed a huge difference.

poofyhairguy
August 6th, 2005, 11:27 PM
Trashcan applet eats tons of RAM it shouldn't.

Metacity drags and is slow.

And of course, my favorite program ever (Firefox) eats a lot of resources. I didn't know until I tried Epiphany. That one uses WAY less RAM, and doesn't peg my CPU. Yet it is not as pretty as Firefox, so Firefox stays.