Auto-launching of applications

[Mackenzie Morgan]

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.

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
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