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> I’ll never understand the logic behind “high memory usage” as a metric for desktop environments. It's also far less trivial than looking at top output: at mi
by brnt 4y ago
> I’ll never understand the logic behind “high memory usage” as a metric for desktop environments.
It's also far less trivial than looking at top output: at minimum you'd want error bars; i.e. repeat the measurement a few times.
At Phoronix KDEs project to reduce memory occupancy has been shown to pay off: in their numbers KDE competes not with Gnome, but with XFCE. If this benchmarks shows a totally different result, at least one of them have a problem.
- spookie 4y agoI daily drive KDE, only see RAM usage that high while a browser is opened. Completely different distro though, so idk how comparable it is. Also, it's running on a VM, and I assume under software rendering. It might not make a dent for others, but if you add fancy effects like KDE does, then I don't think this is a fair comparison.
- brnt 4y agoThere are more doubts I have with their methodology: "A VM will get a 16GB disk drive, [..] 128MB of VRAM". These seem byzantine and may trigger all sorts of behavior that isn't tested for or should be tested for. Also, memory consumption is measured with `free`, which is even more evidence that not just the DE is measured, but the entire system. They only test Fedora Spins, but that is no assurance the rest of the config is identical between them. Something about lies and statistics ;) If the proof of the pudding is in the eating, then simply use the DEs of your choice for a while and see what's optimal for you. Don't do silly things like measure memory consumption with `free` on a VM once, and draw general conclusions.