Understanding Memory usage in GNOME 

This article was first written in January 2004 for
the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/99)
This has been originally written by Miguel de Icaza (the famous GNOME hacker and creator of Ximian). This was retrieved from: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-list/1999-September/msg00036.html. People usually look at the memory sizes for the processes and misinterpret the information.
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