Window manager/desktop environment memory

[screamingjazz]

I've found this interesting article regarding the amount of memory used by a number of window managers and desktop environments.

http://l3net.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/a-memory-comparison-of-light-linux-desktops-part-2/

Beyond the regular unity, gnome, kde, lxde and xfce, is anybody using anything else in Ubuntu? Am I alone running Fluxbox?

[mips]

That comparison is flawed as he seems to have tested all those DE/WM's on top of Ubuntu which in itself adds a lot of stuff not required. Such a test should ideally be done on a netinstall in a VM where you snapshot the base install and then measure each environment.

My laptop runs openbox and my desktop xfce.

[ibjsb4]

Nice reference. With the way Nautilus is going, make me wonder if its worth it.

[mag1strate]

I feel that the memory usage really shouldn't be a problem...I mean 192MB is not much when compared to the 4-16GB most new computers have pre-installed.

This is great for looking at ideas for old computers though!

[ibjsb4]

That comparison is flawed as he seems to have tested all those DE/WM's on top of Ubuntu which in itself adds a lot of stuff not required. Such a test should ideally be done on a netinstall in a VM where you snapshot the base install and then measure each environment.

I tried a variation of this. In a VM, terminal only install. Added slim, xorg and openbox. A boot to openbox shows a 200M increase. Wonder how I could break this down better, this way isn't working.

[oldos2er]

I've found this interesting article regarding the amount of memory used by a number of window managers and desktop environments.

http://l3net.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/a-memory-comparison-of-light-linux-desktops-part-2/


This (http://www.datamation.com/open-source/gnome-or-kde-the-old-question-is-new-today-1.html) is an interesting article along the same lines.

[snowpine]

i have 2gb ram so i use gnome, no problem :)
fluxbox actually runs worse on this laptop b/c it has no power management. i get better battery life and runs cooler with gnome.

[ibjsb4]

i have 2gb ram so i use gnome, no problem :)
fluxbox actually runs worse on this laptop b/c it has no power management. i get better battery life and runs cooler with gnome.

Couldn't laptop-mode-tool just be added to fluxbox or whatever?

[snowpine]

Couldn't laptop-mode-tool just be added to fluxbox or whatever?

sure, or i can just use gnome in its default config b/c i have 2gb :)