Auto-launching of applications

[Steve Langasek]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 06:46:11PM -0500, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> On Friday 20 February 2009 5:13:36 pm Steve Langasek wrote:
> > Minor nit here; in the past update-notifier has always been present and
> > running in the background, displaying an icon as needed.  update-notifier
> > takes up about 20MB of memory on my amd64 system to fulfill this function.
> > The new behavior launches update-manager, which is a much more involved
> > program that takes up over 100MB when it's launched.  I know this is small
> > potatoes compared to, say, firefox, but I think we should be aware of these
> > costs since in aggregate they can certainly be an issue.

> Ubuntu CDs currently say min 256mb RAM, right?  So update-manager uses *half* 
> the total available memory? That sounds sub-optimal.

This is the minimum RAM required in order to run the graphical installer; it
does not appear to be a guarantee of the utility of the resulting system if
you load the default desktop after installation.

After all, firefox here takes 90% of the minimum RAM requirements for the
installer, and that's after being restarted only an hour and a half ago.

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