dirtydog said:
I think you missed my point. If Opera used 250meg and I had several other programs open then 1gig soon becomes full and paging begins. Or, previously-loaded apps are pushed out of the disk-cache so when I reload them later, they are slow to load.
Anyway why are we trying to convince each other - we are both using our browser of choice and are both happy
True. But if its ok for other programs to use that much memory, why cant Opera?
Take my system for example, at the moment i have 3 Opera windows open, each one with 50+ custom shorcuts in it, and almost 80 tabs across the three windows. Its using about 200Mb. iTunes is open, 60Mb. MSN, 40Mb. Outlook, 25Mb. Azureus, 100Mb. And a about 20-30 other processes.
All of that adds up to about 650Mb's of usage on my system. Thats still no-where near a Gb of usage considering whats open. I could even wack open a few large images in Gimp and still not use enough memory to cause the system to start paging. And it'd still be silky smooth.
Thats my point. Lets say the average computer nowadays has 1Gb of ram. Even IF Opera, or any other app, uses 200-250Mb, the remaining 750-800Mb free is more than enough for a multitude of other programs to be open, and still have the system running fine.
As you say, i, like you, am not trying to persuade you from one side to the other, i simply want to discuss the merits of acceptable memory usages with you.
