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Wed, 08 Oct 2008

/Linux/misc: Linux Desktop Memory Requirements Still Very Light

For the vast majority of Linux software, 256 Meg is RAM is quite sufficient, and memory is not a bottleneck.

However, I find myself using at least three pieces of software that are outrageous memory hogs, and in fact having any two of them running at the same time causes swapping and brings my 256 Meg machine to its knees. Unfortunately, all three are essential applications, so I just spent a few dollars to upgrade to 640 Meg (which so far seems to be enough to 100% avoid noticeable swapping).

The three offenders are:

Firefox[1]: Due to its good multimedia support and many useful plugins, Firefox is the current de facto standard browser in the Linux world. I keep trying to move to other browsers, but I always end up coming back to Firefox.
Miro[2]: the best internet television / download client / video library I can find. I look forward to seeing 2.0, and hope it will be less of a resource hog.
Trader Workstation[3]: Interactive Brokers proprietary Java trading app. I am just thankful they are providing a good multi-platform piece of software, and do not plan on giving them a hard time because it just happens to be a bloated and memory-hungry Java app. I wish all banks and brokerages were so friendly towards non-Micro$oft users.

[1] http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
[2] http://www.getmiro.com/
[3] http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/p.php?f=tws&ib_entity=llc

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