Aren’t gnomes supposed to be tiny?

Published on 2005-11-10 by Mark VandeWettering

Look at this dump from the system monitor on my box at work:

System Monitor

This box has a staggering 4gb of memory, and half of it is listed as occupied, and I’m not running any applications of my own. I mean honestly, a clock applet requiring 119 megabytes? The mixer, 133 megabytes? The panel, 135 megabytes?

What the heck is going on here?