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  [DEBIAN TESTING] Questions About Performance Gustavo Júnior <pessoal.gustavojr@gmail.com> - 2023-03-01 04:10 +0100
    Re: [DEBIAN TESTING] Questions About Performance Matt Clarke <bmcdclarke@gmail.com> - 2023-03-01 15:40 +0100

#13222 — [DEBIAN TESTING] Questions About Performance

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Hello!
I've been using Debian Testing for the past week. At the time I started, I
was looking for a rolling release option for my laptop that use APT,
because my hardware only works with the modern kernels and firmwares. I
really liked the stability of the testing version (even if it's not stable)
when it comes to bugs. And I was really looking forward for the stable
version of this one.
But I ran into some questions about performance, because the system itself
consumes 1.3 GB of RAM in my machine and some lag, while the stable version
(Bullseye) runs with just 600 MB with no performance issues (using the same
hardware in both cases). Just to put in perspective, my hardware isn't the
best, but the comparison I make is betweent both of the versions of the OS.
Is it planned some upgrade to reduce the RAM consumption and these system
bottlenecks in future releases?

Kind regards, Gustavo.

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I don't know anything about future release performance, but I can offer 
a couple of approaches to get a system running the way you like:

1. See what's taking the memory and use a less demanding alternative. 
Likely culprits are web browsers and window managers, there are many 
alternatives designed for low resource usage.

2. Run the stable OS that you like better already, but build a new 
kernel from source to support your newer hardware.

On 2/28/2023 18:52, Gustavo Júnior wrote:
> Hello!
> I've been using Debian Testing for the past week. At the time I 
> started, I was looking for a rolling release option for my laptop that 
> use APT, because my hardware only works with the modern kernels and 
> firmwares. I really liked the stability of the testing version (even 
> if it's not stable) when it comes to bugs. And I was really looking 
> forward for the stable version of this one.
> But I ran into some questions about performance, because the system 
> itself consumes 1.3 GB of RAM in my machine and some lag, while the 
> stable version (Bullseye) runs with just 600 MB with no performance 
> issues (using the same hardware in both cases). Just to put in 
> perspective, my hardware isn't the best, but the comparison I make is 
> betweent both of the versions of the OS.
> Is it planned some upgrade to reduce the RAM consumption and these 
> system bottlenecks in future releases?
>
> Kind regards, Gustavo.

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