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[B. Henry]

Well, today I think the desktops use available cpu wisely for the most part, nd for years boot stuff runs in parallel by default when posible. 
Of course there is still a lot of software that does not take advantage of multiple cores, and I am pretty sure that most does not take advantage of 
multiple threading. 
Some allow you to configure how many cores are available for it to use.
 

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     B.H.
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  kendell clark wrote:
Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 12:33:10AM -0500

> hi
> One thing I've noticed about mate, and probably other desktops as well,
> is that they seem to have some kind of algorithm for measuring how much
> ram a system has and adjusting how they use ram accordingly. On my
> system, which has 8 gb of it, mate isn't all that resource efficient in
> the ram department, usually idling at around 700 to 800 mb used.
> However, on my mac and on mellisa's toshiba, mate idles at around 350 mb
> used, and there's zero difference in performance. Gnome and unity
> probably do the same thing, but they also use more effects so can be a
> little heavier on the system. The biggest problem with unity and gnome
> is, my opinion only, cpu usage. They use up a lot of the cpu cycles if
> you have a slow one, and that can make the thing feel sluggish or
> unresponsive. It's why I switched from gnome to mate on my mac, gnome
> did not like my mac much.
> Thanks
> Kendell Clark
> 
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> B. Henry wrote:
> > It is something specific to your system if mate term is faster. It's as close to the same thing as is possible, was actually the exact same size, and 
> > had 0 differences one time when I dcompared.
> > Thunderbird  works perfectly with unity. It sounds like something is messed up, corrupted or badly configured if you are having the problems mentiioned, 
> > Jude.
> > Gnome is notably lighter than unity when it comes to RAM usage.
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