Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 703498
Please make gnome-screensaver less memory-hungry
Last modified: 2012-08-07 14:22:46 EDT
While Gnome screensaver is not running, it does not need to be in the memory. Here's the experiment "how much memory will be freed if I kill gnome-screensaver?" $ cat /proc/meminfo | grep MemFree; killall gnome-screensaver; sleep 2; cat /proc/meminfo | grep MemFree MemFree: 327212 kB MemFree: 339320 kB Answer: 12 megabytes. I consider it to be wasteful to constantly use 12mb of RAM for a program which does nothing but waits. If gnome-screensaver can't be run on demand, I suggest splitting executable into two: one which just waits for inactivity timeout and then execs the second, bigger one. The second one is a screensaver animation program per se. Since first executable is likely to be very simple, it will likely to have much (orders of magnitude) smaller memory footprint.
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