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