FC3 sucks. It takes up too much memory!

[Edward Yang]

Pasha wrote:

> Edward Yang wrote:
>
>> I am *not* exagerating. Please look at the attached screenshot for 
>> detail:
>>
>> 1. I think eggcups is the process for printing. Why it takes up more 
>> than 40mb memory? On Windows 2000, the spooler printing service takes 
>> up only a little more than 4mb memory and less than 3mb virtual memory.
>>
>> 2.  And, eggcups belongs to my session. I am not familiar with the 
>> terminal concept. I guess if a user logs on thru a dumb terminal, 
>> he/she will get his/her own eggcups; and 40mb memory will reduced 
>> from the server. Is my guess true?
>>
>> 3. If I 'kill nnn', where nnn is the pid of eggcups, it somehow 
>> respawns. How can I stop this? Anyway I don't want printing service 
>> right now, I am just learning programming on Linux.
>>
>> 4. I don't want xscreensaver, because I am running FC3 inside 
>> Microsoft Virtual PC. How to stop it?
>>
>> 5. What is gnome-vfs/esd? Are they a must to for a user session?
>>
>> Please forgive me if my post aroused some kind of holy debate. I come 
>> from Windows world, it's inevitable for me to compare Linux/FC with 
>> Windows. But I will appreciate very much if someone can help me, 
>> instead of just saying 'Only newbies don't understand' or even 'Only 
>> morons don't understand'.
>>
> 1. Go to Applications/Preferences/More Preferences/Sessions.
> 2. Click on "Current Session" tab
> 3. Choose egg-cups in the list
> 4. Press remove, then apply - eggcups will quit.
>
> Now press Alt-F2, in the run dialog type gnome-session-save. Press 
> "Run". This will save the session, so eggcups will not run at next 
> logon. This will save the state of all windows, so if you want to log 
> in to clean desktop - close all windows before this.
>
> esd is a sound server. Without it you won't have sound effects, and 
> some sound applications will not work. Go to 
> Applications/Preferences/Sound and uncheck "Enable sound server 
> startup" if you don't care about this.
>
Great! Thanks for the right answers!


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