[clue-tech] LXDE -- New Desktop for Old/Slow Machines

[Michael Fierro]

On Tue July 8 2008 10:40:38 am Angelo Bertolli wrote:

> On another XFCE note, on my current system xfdesktop seems to use a lot 
> of memory over time.  There seems to be an upper limit to how much 
> memory it grabs, but never frees back up (instead ends up going to swap 
> as it's apparently not being used).  The only way I seem to be able to 
> free up this memory and "start over" is by logging out and logging back in.

Yeah, I've seen that behavior, too.  It might've been there in the 3.x versions, but I only noticed it when XFCE 4.0 was released. It's been there ever since. I reported it as a bug, and it has gotten a little bit better with every revision. But xfdesktop can still end up taking a huge (more than 15%) chunk of system memory. Which isn't good, not good at all.

Still, I love XFCE, so I will stick with it.

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