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Re: Which flavour for a 2GB RAM laptop?

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On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 05:56:50AM -0800, Peter Ehlert wrote:

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> I keep hearing about Xfce being "light"
> 
> it defiantly is, but I decided to compare it to my personal favorite Mate
> 
> Two fresh netinstalls, same machine, same SSD drive. Xfce and Mate desktops
> 
> xfce:  774 MIB ram used .. 4 GIB / space used
> mate:  719 MIB ram used .. 6 GIB / space used
> mate*:  722 MIB ram used .. 6 GIB / space used
> 
> *Mate with the mate-desktop-environment-extras metapackage

Or just ditch the desktop environment altogether and use a
honest window manager (e.g. Fvwm ;-)

USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
[...]
root      1867  0.0  0.0   8460  2096 ?        Ss   Mar03   0:00 /usr/bin/xdm
root      1885  0.8  0.3 758372 55104 tty7     Ssl+ Mar03  10:24  \_ /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg :0 vt7 -nolisten tcp -auth /var/lib/xdm/authdir/authfiles/A:0-QCuTrm
root      2088  0.0  0.0  16052  8228 ?        Ss   Mar03   0:00  \_ -:0
tomas     2433  0.0  0.0  80564 14812 ?        Ss   Mar03   0:05      \_ x-window-manager
tomas     2484  0.0  0.0   5964  2692 ?        Ss   Mar03   0:00          \_ /usr/bin/ssh-agent x-window-manager
tomas     2485  0.0  0.0   5612  1324 ?        S    Mar03   0:00          \_ /usr/lib/fvwm/2.6.8/FvwmCommandS 8 5 /home/tomas/.fvwm/config 0 8
tomas     2486  0.0  0.0  76212 11384 ?        S    Mar03   0:00          \_ /usr/lib/fvwm/2.6.8/FvwmButtons 10 5 /home/tomas/.fvwm/config 0 8
tomas     2487  0.0  0.0  76184 12340 ?        S    Mar03   0:00          \_ /usr/lib/fvwm/2.6.8/FvwmPager 11 4 none 0 8 0 0

Yes, that's 15 MB RSS for the window manager, roughly 45 MB counting
in its minions :-)

That's less than one-tenth of one of the many firefox's sprawling
tentacles...

Cheers
-- 
t

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Re: Which flavour for a 2GB RAM laptop? Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> - 2022-03-04 12:00 +0100
  Re: Which flavour for a 2GB RAM laptop? Peter Ehlert <pb21a@sdi-baja.com> - 2022-03-04 15:00 +0100
    Re: Which flavour for a 2GB RAM laptop? Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2022-03-04 15:10 +0100
    Re: Which flavour for a 2GB RAM laptop? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-03-04 15:20 +0100
      Re: Which flavour for a 2GB RAM laptop? Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012@yahoo.com> - 2022-03-05 11:10 +0100
        Re: Which flavour for a 2GB RAM laptop? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-03-05 11:30 +0100
    Re: Which flavour for a 2GB RAM laptop? Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2022-03-04 16:20 +0100
      Re: Which flavour for a 2GB RAM laptop? Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> - 2022-03-04 16:30 +0100
  Re: Which flavour for a 2GB RAM laptop? Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2022-03-04 19:40 +0100

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