Shae Tan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am basically a GUI person. Lately, I observed that desktop > environments are using too much memory. For example, my KDE reveals in > "top": > > Mem: 516036k total, 512348k used, 3688k free, 183688k buffers > Swap: 1060248k total, 916k used, 1059332k free, 98500k cached >
Mine's currently: Mem: 256376k total, 235252k used, 21124k free, 12792k buffers Swap: 289128k total, 0k used, 289128k free, 115428k cached > I want to know what PLUG members are using for their desktops and how > they manage the memory used by these GUIs. Do you recommend that I buy > another 512mb of RAM? The above is because I use Ion[Â] for my window manager. Not that I'm not a GUI guy (I actually use the GIMP a lot, and I've been tweaking it by doing some Gimp-Scheme magic), but I've learnt a lot from common desktop environments like KDE and GNOME: the longer you go using them, you get to appreciate machine efficiency. As indicated, I have 256MB of memory, but I could easily sit in as little as 64 without swap ;p and that even surprises me. =D I keep swap roughly the same, for two reasons: my IDE and CPU bandwith (I think) is fast enough to handle large transfers (like those done in graphics operations, or anything that has to do with recursion); and my hard disk space has only enough left for a swap. For most modern DEs, 512 can be considered the minimum, though I think another won't hurt (having the cash to burn it with ;) There should be tunables for KDE though, so that you could make do even on half of your current setup... Also, Linux slurps memory, not because its hungry for it, but because it knows that sooner or later you're gonna access resources (like files) and it knows that it can reserve space for caching them. So even if you've got 1GB of mem it'll try to grab all of it in one gulp. > This is my system: Linux localhost 2.6.8.1-24mdk AMD Athlon(tm) > [XP2200] prosussor GNU/Linux You've a faster processor than mine, and that's good. Footnotes: [Â] http://iki.fi/~tuomov/ion/ -- ZAK B. ELEP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- <http://zakame.spunge.org> 1024D/FA53851D 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D -- Running Debian GNU+Linux testing/unstable. GnuPG signed mail preferred.
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