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kio_http
February 13th, 2010, 12:45 PM
On each OS you have:

State the RAM Usage and capacity of the computer

spupy
February 13th, 2010, 01:45 PM
350MB out of 2GB. I've never seen it go over 1GB.

SemiBuz
February 13th, 2010, 02:04 PM
80 - 140 MB ( rarely goes over 200MB ).

desnaike
February 13th, 2010, 02:18 PM
411 mb 1 gig total.

Berk
February 13th, 2010, 02:20 PM
539 out of 993MB,
most of that seems to be thanks to firefox. Using Ubuntu 9.10.

Switching over to Chromium, barely any change.

karth
February 13th, 2010, 02:35 PM
1.2GB out of 4GB

I have RAM, let's fill it! Lots of apps running in parallel, compiz effects...
Ubuntu 9.10 x64

blueshiftoverwatch
February 13th, 2010, 02:44 PM
Ubuntu 9.10 x64: 1.2GB out of 7.8GB, or 15.7%

blueshiftoverwatch
February 13th, 2010, 02:45 PM
edit: double post

tjwoosta
February 13th, 2010, 05:21 PM
Well heres all my current standings. It really doesnt get much lighter for this machine, so long as Im using X. Even a very basic bare bones X install w/ twm uses about 50 MB ram, I think its related to the intel graphics.

Archlinux w/ fluxbox
~65 MB of 1GB on fresh boot at idle. Usually never goes above 500mb even with everything open, unless Im running vm's. Uses all lightweight apps like Claws mail, smplayer, epdfview, xterm, thunar, sonata, abiword, basically just some of the lightest weight and most responsive gtk apps I can find, except of course icecat but thats still pretty responsive. Overall extremely responsive for a GUI environment, Im talking click an item in the menu and its open before your finger comes off the button.

Archlinx w/ wmii
~50 MB of 1GB on fresh boot at ilde. Usually never goes above 350 MB even with everything open, unless Im running vm's. Uses all CLI/keyboard oriented aps like vifm, vim, ncmpcpp, cdrtools, you get the idea. Usually only use one gtk app (uzbl).

And my torrent server. Its a really old 400mhz celron that came with win95 and 64mb ram. ;) So I upgraded the ram to 192 MB and threw on some debian.

Debian Lenny w/ nothing (framebuffer CLI only)
~16 MB of 192 MB on fresh boot at idle. Usually never goes above 30 MB, but its only used for an rtorrent server and ushare server to my xbox. No monitor, I ssh.

Then the following were installed for my parents and my sister. I want to make them lighter but they also need user friendly, and they hated puppy linux. Still deciding what to do.

Debian Leny w/ xfce
~120 MB of 256 MB on fresh boot at idle. Usually uses up all avalible ram plus about 30-60 MB swap with just iceweasel and openoffice writer open.

Ubuntu 8.04 w/ fluxbox (was originally fluxbuntu 7.10 but changed sources.lst when fluxbuntu seemed to be dead, Its still alive apparently)
~230 MB of 256 MB on fresh boot at idle. Usually uses up all availible ram plus about 60mb swap with just firefox running.

HappyFeet
February 13th, 2010, 06:07 PM
900mb of 6gb with a couple things running. 64bit.

audiomick
February 13th, 2010, 06:51 PM
Ubuntu 9.10 64bit desktop running firefox with this thread open only, system monitor, synergy server
530MB from 3.9GB

Vista 32bit on a different machine (laptop) running firefox with this thread open, windows task manager and synergy client
965MB from 3GB

And the winner is....

standingwave
February 13th, 2010, 06:53 PM
Right now it's 830 MB out of 8 GB. Currently running Firefox (33 tabs), GIMP (editing some wallpaper images), Transmission (downloading some torrents) and a couple of file managers.

I have seen it as high as 2.3 GB when I've been engaged in heavy video editing. Sometimes I wish it would use more memory if it would improve performance (not that I have any performance complaints on this 2.33GHz quad core).

arnab_das
February 13th, 2010, 06:56 PM
i have 2GB of RAM, hardly use more than 50% of it. (tracked it thanks to system monitor)

Psumi
February 13th, 2010, 07:18 PM
180 / 496 MB

Gets worse when I use pidgin and firefox for lengthy periods.

Perfect Storm
February 13th, 2010, 07:23 PM
525mb of 4Gb.
Running amarok, vlc, firefox on kubuntu 9.10 64bit KDE4.4

l-x-l
February 13th, 2010, 07:25 PM
452 MB /3,276 MB on Karmic & running FF, Compiz & Terminator.

rasmus91
February 13th, 2010, 07:27 PM
730 mb of 4 GB

thats running Google chrome and nautilus. but i always have a lot of sleeping processes.

When i used winodws 7 and vista it was always about 1-2 GB's when doing nothing.

I love Ubuntu's low sys requirements, it runs so lightly =D

Psumi
February 13th, 2010, 07:33 PM
I love Ubuntu's low sys requirements, it runs so lightly =D

Too bad it kills my system. :( when it merely starts up with a default ubuntu install *has to force off compiz*

arnab_das
February 13th, 2010, 07:42 PM
Too bad it kills my system. :( when it merely starts up with a default ubuntu install *has to force off compiz*

isnt xubuntu a lighter weight variant than ubuntu? did u try it?

The Real Dave
February 13th, 2010, 07:43 PM
Main Desktop

462Mb out of 1377Mb. Ubuntu 9.10 x86_64.

An average usage, I've Firefox and plenty of compiz running. Has 1Gb of swap that it never really uses too much, unless I run two Virtual Machines at once. I can run XP in Virtualbox without touching swap :)

Main Server

120Mb out of 384Mb. Ubuntu Server 9.10 x88

Runs Apt-Cacher-NG, Squid proxy with a 5Gb cache, rtorrent, mt-daapd and nfs. Before I used Apt-Cacher-NG I used the much older Apt-Cacher. Old and more hungry. After adding 1Gb of .debs it, in one big gulp, swallowed all the RAM and the 200Mb of swap and crashed the system. After that I changed things around, and created a 2Gb swap partition, the largest on any of my systems :) Better safe then sorry :)

Second Server

28Mb out of 128Mb. Ubuntu Server 9.10 x88

Before I was told, I never though Ubuntu Server would run on this. I never realised how slim Ubuntu can be made :) Useful for breathing new life into old computers. All this server really does is share files through NFS and thats usually where the memory usage stays.

The Real Dave
February 13th, 2010, 07:44 PM
Too bad it kills my system. :( when it merely starts up with a default ubuntu install *has to force off compiz*

Try Crunchbang (http://crunchbanglinux.org/). Same Ubuntu, just with the Openbox WM. Much faster and lighter :)

kgarbutt
February 13th, 2010, 07:47 PM
517 meg of 2G with 227 meg as Swap

eeepc@eeepc:~/Desktop$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2005 517 1487 0 12 311
-/+ buffers/cache: 193 1811
Swap: 227 0 227

Ginsu543
February 13th, 2010, 08:00 PM
Right now, 800 MB out to 3.9 GB running Karmic x86_64. I have many processes running in the background, including Docky, conky, and tint2, not to mention pretty much every eye-candy turned on in Compiz. The only time I hit even 50% usage is if I am running VirtualBox with 1 GB set aside for my Windows XP virtual machine.

Zoot7
February 13th, 2010, 08:05 PM
300MB usage in Debian Lenny as I type right now, it seldom goes over 500.

Windows 7 tends to hover between 1GB and 2GB, and XP tends to hover between 500MB and 1GB, depending on what I'm doing.

gletob
February 13th, 2010, 09:17 PM
On my Ubuntu Laptop 300 MiB of 2 GiB

On my Windows 7 Desktop
1.8 GiB of 8 GiB

Denthul
February 13th, 2010, 10:16 PM
Currently using 441MB out of 4GB with Openbox, Tint2, Firefox, VLC, Pidgin, Parcellite and GNOME Terminal running. I don't know why it's so high - even freshly booted, it's about 120MB before I start X and anything else :/

YeOK
February 13th, 2010, 10:33 PM
1.1GB of 4GB used.

I have a number of tabs open in chromium as well as netbeans, komodo ide, thunderbird, songbird, xchat, pidgin, gnome-do and have an RPM rebuilding in a terminal window.

Though, I don't mind, I bought the memory to be used. I have never understood this fascination with low memory usage.

swoll1980
February 13th, 2010, 10:47 PM
kubuntu 9.10 using 520 MB. Unlike some of these other freaks, it kind of irritates me how little RAM I end up using. Why do I have all this RAM if nothing uses it? Even running win 7 and playing newer games (Dragon Age) I never get over 2 GB. Why do I have these gigantic swap files if I only ever use 1/2 the RAM I have

t0p
February 13th, 2010, 10:48 PM
388.3 MB out of a total of 1010.4 MB.

That's with 7 tabs open on Firefox, plus I'm running wget in a terminal; and I'm also using Evolution and gedit.

t0p
February 13th, 2010, 10:51 PM
kubuntu 9.10 using 520 MB. Unlike some of these other freaks, it kind of irritates me how little RAM I end up using. Why do I have all this RAM if nothing uses it.

So how much RAM do you have?

swoll1980
February 13th, 2010, 10:57 PM
so how much ram do you have?

4 gb

Add: it won't let me use upper-case letters in gb

-grubby
February 13th, 2010, 11:56 PM
Free: 1.35 GB
Wired: 515.2 MB
Active: 852.5 MB
Inactive: 320.8 MB
Used: 1.65 GB

gjoellee
February 14th, 2010, 12:17 AM
Arch:


KDEmod: 250mb of 4gb
Openbox: 60mb of 4gb
XFCE: 120mb of 4gb
GNOME 300mb of 4gb

Ubuntu:


GNOME: 480 of 4gb
KDE: 500mb of 4gb
XFCE: 270mb of 4gb
Openbox: 100mb of 4gb

Windows:


7: 1,29 gb of 4gb
Vista: 1,8gb of 4gb

Denthul
February 14th, 2010, 05:14 PM
Arch:


KDEmod: 250mb of 4gb
Openbox: 60mb of 4gb
XFCE: 120mb of 4gb
GNOME 300mb of 4gb

Ubuntu:


GNOME: 480 of 4gb
KDE: 500mb of 4gb
XFCE: 270mb of 4gb
Openbox: 100mb of 4gb


Do you have a similar set of software installed on both systems? I've been considering putting Arch on one of my Mini-ITX machines instead of Ubuntu.

Eisenwinter
February 14th, 2010, 05:24 PM
Arch:

292MB out of 1GB.

Not sure how much Windows XP uses, haven't measured it, but I assume it's around 100 - 300.

MooPi
February 14th, 2010, 06:06 PM
Ubuntu Openbox minimal setup. First boot starts with 46mb.
http://i559.photobucket.com/albums/ss36/MooPii/Ubuntu-Lite/th_2010-02-14-115901_1440x900_scrot.png (http://s559.photobucket.com/albums/ss36/MooPii/Ubuntu-Lite/?action=view&current=2010-02-14-115901_1440x900_scrot.png)

bowbalitic
February 14th, 2010, 06:15 PM
2gb out of 7.8

I have actually have Ultimate Edition 2.4 with sweet compiz settings, a cube, and a wicked 3d obj moon rotating inside my cube. :P its totally overkill but it looks awesome!!

lordyosch
February 14th, 2010, 06:17 PM
About 600MB out of 3.6GB Running 9,10, with Apache and Mysql server in the background.

JAy

flyingsliverfin
February 14th, 2010, 06:25 PM
haven't seen it go over 500 mb (/2.5 gb) (normal is 250 mb) unless i run xp in vbox...

for me what seems to be slowing the comp down is the hdd


is there a way to write a script that will pipe the cpu performance & memory useage into a file?

Baneblade
February 14th, 2010, 06:27 PM
Ubuntu 9.10 64bit: 1.2GB out of 4GB currently.
Lots of background processes, Compiz etc. Surprised at how little is in use.

Windows 7 gaming rig is running at 1.63GB out of 4GB and doing less that Ubuntu is currently.

gjoellee
February 14th, 2010, 06:31 PM
Do you have a similar set of software installed on both systems? I've been considering putting Arch on one of my Mini-ITX machines instead of Ubuntu.

In Arch you just install the software YOU need. You will probably use less ram than Ubuntu anyway, so just go ahead and try.

SuperSonic4
February 14th, 2010, 08:05 PM
In Arch you just install the software YOU need. You will probably use less ram than Ubuntu anyway, so just go ahead and try.

+1

980MB/7994MB - that's with firefox, amarok and k9copy (ie: mencoder) running.


Unused RAM is wasted RAM :p

Yes
February 14th, 2010, 08:18 PM
Currently ~330 MB used out of 2 GB. I'm using Arch Linux with Awesome WM, with Firefox, Open Office, and MPD running.

Satoru-san
February 14th, 2010, 10:12 PM
Without starting X = 55.61 megs / 500 megs

Started sawfish = 112.76 megs / 500 megs

started gnome (w/gdesklets)= 252.64 megs / 500 megs

started ff (44 tabs) in gnome = 401.33 megs / 500 megs


There are all according to TOP command.

However gdesklets right now with ff running says I am only using 250 megs. I cant figure that out >_<


OS: gentoo.

kemsiro
February 14th, 2010, 10:56 PM
~700 MB/ 1 GB

running Chromium/jDownloader/Exaile/Shutter/Empathy atm.

NovaAesa
February 14th, 2010, 11:45 PM
On my main rig, normally about 600MB out of 4GB is used. When I am running my custom fractal generation software (written by me) ram usage can go all the way up to 4GB depending on what resolutions I am rendering at (I don't like to generate images requiring more than 4GB because I always end up with swap thrashing).

toupeiro
February 15th, 2010, 12:00 AM
1.2GB out of 6. Currently not running any VM's at the moment. Thats pretty bloaty to me:

Top 10 apps/Memory footprint:

1. Firefox 155.4MiB -- ugh...
2. Xorg 95.2MiB
3. update-manager 46.7MiB
4. soffice.bin 45.0MiB
5. evolution 38.0MiB
6. CurseClient.exe (Wine) 33.5MiB
7. mysqld 27.4MiB
8. telepathy-butterfly 26.5MiB
9. empathy 24.5MiB
10. ubuntuone-syncdaemon 22.9MiB

cariboo
February 15th, 2010, 12:09 AM
721Mb with gnome-shell, chrome and 2 terminals open. I'm running a AMD 2X 240 with 2Gb ram and Nvidia 8400GS.