On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 07:51:24PM +0000, ng0 wrote: > On 17-02-22 11:37:11, Rodger Fox wrote: > > What is the typical memory usage of a GuixSD system? > > There's no such thing as a typical system. It depends on what you run, > 300 open browser tabs will lead to more RAM used for example. > > I'm watching a video, write in an IRC client, and run some other > background applications and I'm at 3.5 GiB RAM.
I have a headless system with 3 GiB RAM total. I'm currently compiling the Linux kernel and GCC, and ~900 MiB are actively being used by userspace processes, with the remainder filled with assorted buffers and cache.