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I'm curious how Sway WM and i3 ranks here.

by deafpolygon 4y ago

itvision 4y ago
I guess they are similar to what IceWM shows.
Liquix 4y ago
Purely anecdotal - i3 + picom idles around 350MB while tiling wayland compositors (sway/hyprland) idle closer to 500MB
- ninjin 4y ago
  Also from the tiling family of WMs, dwm clocks in at just below 150MB virtual.
- mijoharas 4y ago
  Interestingly my sway is clocking in at 131mb resident set size. This actually surprises me, I have three screens, and a fair few applications open..
rch 4y ago
Cold boot to i3 and launch Alacrity: bash-5.1$ uptime 08:38:18 up 1 min, 1 user, load average: 0.18, 0.06, 0.02 bash-5.1$ free -m total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 63997 674 61498 129 1824 62579 Swap: 8191 0 8191 bash-5.1$ cat /etc/fedora-release Fedora release 35 (Thirty Five)
bsdice 4y ago
Arch, i3, RSS sizes, only counting processes from logged-in user: 2.6 GB ungoogled-chromium (Browser) 150 MB kitty (Terminal) 50 MB udiskie (Automounter) 46 MB picom (Compositor) 36 MB pulseaudio (Sound) 26 MB gpaste-daemon (Copy Paste) 21 MB polybar (Bar on top of screen) 20 MB dunst (Notifications) 17 MB i3 (WM itself) Plus a bunch of services below that, which at this point is only noise. If palemoon works for you as a browser, that will only use 320 MB RSS empty on startup. Machine has 64 GB RAM, no idea if Chromium by design would eat less on less beefier machines. At 4 GB RAM, zRAM is certainly an option, if you can't or don't want to upgrade. Without such tweaking, modern Linux desktops profit from 8 GB RAM. No matter what WM or DE you run. Once you start a web browser, game over. ;-)
- btdmaster 4y ago
  Firefox may work a bit better when it comes to memory usage, especially because about:memory allows manual garbage collection calls if memory usage gets too high.
davidthewatson 4y ago
I've run sway on most of my home hardware for 2-3 years which ranges from i7 4 core to Ryzen 4700 8 core with 16 GB RAM and all of my post-boot measurements hover in the 512-640 MB range. I'm usually on arch but these numbers seem consistent from debian to fedora to arch. Sway deserves credit for managing IPC latency like a cloud provider manages RPC latency. I miss the days when personal computers were near zero latency but sway is as good as it gets in that regard, which is why I'm a fan. There's a lot to learn from the sway design.

I'm curious how Sway WM and i3 ranks here.

itvision 4y ago

I guess they are similar to what IceWM shows.

Liquix 4y ago

Purely anecdotal - i3 + picom idles around 350MB while tiling wayland compositors (sway/hyprland) idle closer to 500MB

ninjin 4y ago
Also from the tiling family of WMs, dwm clocks in at just below 150MB virtual.
mijoharas 4y ago
Interestingly my sway is clocking in at 131mb resident set size. This actually surprises me, I have three screens, and a fair few applications open..

rch 4y ago

Cold boot to i3 and launch Alacrity: bash-5.1$ uptime 08:38:18 up 1 min, 1 user, load average: 0.18, 0.06, 0.02 bash-5.1$ free -m total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 63997 674 61498 129 1824 62579 Swap: 8191 0 8191 bash-5.1$ cat /etc/fedora-release Fedora release 35 (Thirty Five)

bsdice 4y ago

Arch, i3, RSS sizes, only counting processes from logged-in user: 2.6 GB ungoogled-chromium (Browser) 150 MB kitty (Terminal) 50 MB udiskie (Automounter) 46 MB picom (Compositor) 36 MB pulseaudio (Sound) 26 MB gpaste-daemon (Copy Paste) 21 MB polybar (Bar on top of screen) 20 MB dunst (Notifications) 17 MB i3 (WM itself) Plus a bunch of services below that, which at this point is only noise. If palemoon works for you as a browser, that will only use 320 MB RSS empty on startup. Machine has 64 GB RAM, no idea if Chromium by design would eat less on less beefier machines. At 4 GB RAM, zRAM is certainly an option, if you can't or don't want to upgrade. Without such tweaking, modern Linux desktops profit from 8 GB RAM. No matter what WM or DE you run. Once you start a web browser, game over. ;-)

btdmaster 4y ago
Firefox may work a bit better when it comes to memory usage, especially because about:memory allows manual garbage collection calls if memory usage gets too high.

davidthewatson 4y ago

I've run sway on most of my home hardware for 2-3 years which ranges from i7 4 core to Ryzen 4700 8 core with 16 GB RAM and all of my post-boot measurements hover in the 512-640 MB range. I'm usually on arch but these numbers seem consistent from debian to fedora to arch. Sway deserves credit for managing IPC latency like a cloud provider manages RPC latency. I miss the days when personal computers were near zero latency but sway is as good as it gets in that regard, which is why I'm a fan. There's a lot to learn from the sway design.