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Is that 600MB of used RAM? Why is it so much? I've seen KDE environments use less than 400MB and when i use Window Maker i get something around 250MB or so. (a
by Crinus 8y ago
Is that 600MB of used RAM? Why is it so much? I've seen KDE environments use less than 400MB and when i use Window Maker i get something around 250MB or so.
(all of them are ridiculous sizes considering something like Windows NT 4 needs 16MB of RAM for the entire system and applications to run while providing a ton of functionality out of the box, but still even relatively your setup looks to use a lot of memory)
- DyslexicAtheist 8y agooops, my bad. notice the mistake I made with sudo so this includes all the other things currently running. Limited to my current user the correct value would be: smem -c pss -t | tail -1 220678 EDIT: reply inline to @Crinus because rate limitation: no this is only current user because hidepid on proc in fstab proc /proc proc defaults,hidepid=2 0 0
- Crinus 8y agoStill, isn't it the entire system's load?
- Zardoz84 8y agoWell I had working KDE 1 on a machine with 16MiB, and you can setup a working X11 + FVWM with 4MiB of RAM. Obviously using older versions of Linux kernel and userland. More ridiculous could be a full GUI OS on a machine witch less RAM, like an Amiga 1000/500 or a early Macs.
- Crinus 8y agoI'm talking about the current versions, not old stuff, i also had KDE 1 working on a 32MB machine. I do not expect current versions to be easy to run even in 32MB (although i've heard - but didn't verify - that Xorg can be configured and built from source to use as little as 600KB) but i'm curious where those hundreds of MBs go even for something like Xorg + Window Maker.
- bigato 8y agofvwm is current stuff, being the default window manager in OpenBSD.