What's a good universal IM program?
Posted: 2003-08-09 01:53am
I know about Trillian but I hear people talking about it being a memory whore.
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Posted: 2003-08-09 01:55am
Trillian does a great job. I check it now, and it's apparently taking 17mb of ram. This seems inordinate, but it doesn't have any negative effect on me now so I don't care.
Posted: 2003-08-09 01:59am
Right now I have 256mb and it's 42% free. I'm currently running AOL, Netscape, and Yahoo. Would that be bad?
Posted: 2003-08-09 02:10am
Trillian has never given me problems, nor have I had the slightest difficulty with it hogging memory. Even doing highly resource-intensive operations, Trillian's effect on my system is minimal.
Posted: 2003-08-09 02:22am
Hmmm, well ok then, I'll use it too.
Posted: 2003-08-09 03:18am
I have a gigabyte of ram, with a ~2400 megabyte total memory.
17 megs used by Trillian is vastly insignificant.
Trillian's ability to do lots of things more than makes up for it.
17 megs used by Trillian is vastly insignificant.
Trillian's ability to do lots of things more than makes up for it.
Posted: 2003-08-09 03:25am
I use Trillian exclusively
Posted: 2003-08-09 09:36am
Trillian's good, Miranda's OK. However, I've recently had problems using ICQ file transfer over Trillian.
Posted: 2003-08-09 02:48pm
A lot of people like Trillian. Others like MirandaICQ; I've lately been partial to the Windows port of GAIM.
Posted: 2003-08-09 02:51pm
GAIM?phongn wrote:A lot of people like Trillian. Others like MirandaICQ; I've lately been partial to the Windows port of GAIM.
And while 17megs and such may not be that much to you with the huge ass RAM loads, what about someone with a 120MB RAM? Who also is doing other stuff at the time.
And how can I check this stuff with Win98? Like what RAM a program uses, how much is free, etc?
Posted: 2003-08-09 03:12pm
You can find out how much is used by right-clicking on My Computer>Properties>Performance. I don't know we can find out the amount each program uses with Windows, though.
Posted: 2003-08-09 05:04pm
I use Trillian as well. So far, I have no problems with Trillian at all. I would recommend it.
Posted: 2003-08-09 05:37pm
If you run an NT-based OS, you can determine how much RAM is being used with the Task Manager (as well as how much of that is being paged out).StarshipTitanic wrote:You can find out how much is used by right-clicking on My Computer>Properties>Performance. I don't know we can find out the amount each program uses with Windows, though.
Posted: 2003-08-09 05:42pm
it comes down to your system....can it handle one big task or five (assuming you use all of trillian) small tasks better? Use it as suits...personally..it might slow down full screen internet games...but other than that....I have no complaints with trillian...only praise
Posted: 2003-08-09 06:50pm
Ah, gotcha.phongn wrote:If you run an NT-based OS, you can determine how much RAM is being used with the Task Manager (as well as how much of that is being paged out).StarshipTitanic wrote:You can find out how much is used by right-clicking on My Computer>Properties>Performance. I don't know we can find out the amount each program uses with Windows, though.