Indeed. On my system (2GB), I use Vim in urxvt with zsh. From top: .1 + .4 + .2= .7% of my ram. I could add in Postgres or sqlite and Apache (or even a lighter

Indeed. On my system (2GB), I use Vim in urxvt with zsh. From top: .1 + .4 + .2= .7% of my ram. I could add in Postgres or sqlite and Apache (or even a lighter weight webserver) if I really needed it, and still probably not use my swap.