desktop eviroments

[chris200x9]

could everyone post how much ram their DE uses and what it is?

I'm trying to see if 220-ish megs is light or if I should rethink my "light" compiz + xfdesktop archlinux derrivitave

[Tipped OuT]

If that's on idle (with no programs running), then that's a little bit heavy. If not, then that's about average.

[Sean Moran]

I hope that these are the values you're after, from the System Monitor as I type into Firefox on the standard Karmic Beta:

Memory - 157.2Mb (64.2% of 244.9MiB.

[RichardLinx]

Quite a bit with GNOME and a few applications running in the background (5 Tabs in Opera + 1 Firefox + DL Manager + Terminal) But I did just install a whole bunch of KDE applications which might be part of the reason.

[chris200x9]

thanks all! Now I wonder how much gnome + compiz-fusion uses, I wonder if I'm really gaining *anything*

[Tipped OuT]

thanks all! Now I wonder how much gnome + compiz-fusion uses, I wonder if I'm really gaining *anything*

I use no more the 300 MB's. the only time it goes over that, is when I'm using a web browser (memory leak anyone?). Just look at the guys screen shot above, now that's ridiculous. :P

[-grubby]

The definition of 'heavy' depends on your computer specs. Right now I'm using 519 MB but I don't really care with 5 GB of RAM.

[Stan_1936]

could everyone post how much ram their DE uses and what it is?...

Ubuntu(GNOME) - 159 MB RAM
Xubuntu(XFCE) - 135 MB RAM
Crunchbang(OPENBOX) - 64 MB RAM
Linux Mint(GNOME) - more than 200 MB RAM(YUCK!)
Crunchbang LITE(OPENBOX) - 55 MB RAM

All these numbers are IMMEDIATELY AFTER first boot following installation to an internal hard drive(7200 RPM WD Caviar IDE-ATA 8MB Cache) of a system with 2.00 GB RAM BUT only a 1.00 GHZ AMD K-7 CPU.

[snowpine]

could everyone post how much ram their DE uses and what it is?

I'm trying to see if 220-ish megs is light or if I should rethink my "light" compiz + xfdesktop archlinux derrivitave

220mb is meaningless without knowing how much ram you have... on a computer with 256mb, 220mb would be a lot... on a computer with 4gb, it would be quite lightweight. :)

[foxmulder881]

Whilst sitting on desktop listening to some music, ~77MB. Beat that!

[RiceMonster]

The definition of 'heavy' depends on your computer specs. Right now I'm using 519 MB but I don't really care with 5 GB of RAM.

Agreed. Unless you have a low amount, who cares how much ram you're using? I used to obsess about my ram usage, but I've stopped caring as of late. I have 4 gb on my desktop and 2 gb on my laptop.

[Tipped OuT]

Whilst sitting on desktop listening to some music, ~77MB. Beat that!

http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/6917/gnomesystemmonitormemor.png

[dragos240]

When using awesome around 70 - 80 mb with links and moc open.

[-grubby]

http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/6917/gnomesystemmonitormemor.png

Wait... 13 kb? Doesn't Gnome-System-Monitor itself use more than that?

[Tipped OuT]

Wait... 13 kb? Doesn't Gnome-System-Monitor itself use more than that?

Win! :)

[PurposeOfReason]

Idle means nothing for usage because you aren't using anything.

[foxmulder881]

Win! :)

We're talking about real stats here, not manipulated ones which I suspect your is. Because the image you uploaded is a gui system monitor. And I'm not aware of any gui monitor that would use that amount of ram. In fact, even htop in xterm uses more than that. It's crap.

[chris200x9]

Ubuntu(GNOME) - 159 MB RAM
Xubuntu(XFCE) - 135 MB RAM
Crunchbang(OPENBOX) - 64 MB RAM
Linux Mint(GNOME) - more than 200 MB RAM(YUCK!)
Crunchbang LITE(OPENBOX) - 55 MB RAM

All these numbers are IMMEDIATELY AFTER first boot following installation to an internal hard drive(7200 RPM WD Caviar IDE-ATA 8MB Cache) of a system with 2.00 GB RAM BUT only a 1.00 GHZ AMD K-7 CPU.

yea, I did it wrong last night I had firefox with like 5 tabs open too, today right after boot it was 109


220mb is meaningless without knowing how much ram you have... on a computer with 256mb, 220mb would be a lot... on a computer with 4gb, it would be quite lightweight. :)
good point seeing as how I'm thinking of making this "distrolet" 64-bit only I shouldn't really worry

[Simian Man]

I *want* to use all, or nearly all, of my RAM. In an ideal situation, the OS would cache all of the core libraries in RAM so that applications start up quickly. Why would I want to have 2+ gigs of RAM in order to only utilize less than a quarter of it?

This "my setup uses less than your setup" is pretty silly.