70.7 MB memory used with minimal install

[Sealbhach]

I've recently bought a low-spec laptop with 512MB of RAM which has not arrived yet so in the meantime I've been playing in Virtualbox with the Ubuntu mini.iso.

Here's a pic of the system monitor:

http://imgur.com/Ty4hX.png

I just installed the server packages and then (following the great Psychocats guide here) I installed just a few things to get a desktop. I also installed LXDE. So, with no apps open the RAM usage hovers around 69-70MB. I opened 34 tabs in Firefox and opened a few other apps but the RAM didn't get above 190MB or so.

Is ther anything I can do to get the CPU usage down? Or should I worry about that even?

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[dragos240]

Impressive.

[nw2001]

At the risk of sounding like a complete fool.

I always assumed if I didnt have anything going while using something like LXDE, And you opened up a system monitor, I'd think most of it would be the system monitor it self using resources. *Shrugs*

[dirtylobster]

I built up a "normal" Ubuntu installation from the mini.iso last spring and it was great fun and faster/less recource-intensive than the default bloated installation, was just going to do this again with Karmic, thanks for the heads up!

[BuffaloX]

Wow that's a lean mean system.

If 16% CPU usage is average, it's pretty high.
Just checked my own CPU usage with Htop it fluctuates from 0 - 18 %.
With Compiz - Firefox - system monitor.
First time I did that with Karmic, and it does seem X uses more CPU power than it used to? Jaunty used to stay under 5%.

Might be worth investigating...

[Sealbhach]

At the risk of sounding like a complete fool.

I always assumed if I didnt have anything going while using something like LXDE, And you opened up a system monitor, I'd think most of it would be the system monitor it self using resources. *Shrugs*

I just checked that, it says system monitor is using 5.5 MB, so not too much. LXDE panels are using another 4MB or so.

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[urukrama]

Is ther anything I can do to get the CPU usage down?

Use htop instead of gnome system monitor, which is very heavy for a system monitor.

[Warpnow]

http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/4...7800x600sc.png

You will cut cpu usage alot if you use midori over firefox. Firefox/Gecko aren't too nice on cpu.

[dragos240]

Hmm... If I put this on a live cd/usb, how much ram would it use out-of-the-box.

[xuCGC002]

http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/4...7800x600sc.png

You will cut cpu usage alot if you use midori over firefox. Firefox/Gecko aren't too nice on cpu.

How much memory does XFCE use total? And I'm steering clear of Xubuntu.

EDIT: Sorry, I didn't read all of the Conky output. >.<