Re: Memory Usage

[Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>]

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Hi Rodger!

Rodger Fox <thylakoid@openmailbox.org> writes:

> What is the typical memory usage of a GuixSD system?
> I can't seem to get mine below 5GiB, according to top.

Ugh. This with a full blown Gnome desktop?

> This is when I stop Xorg and most system services, including
> networking and such, and just log in to a plain terminal with nothing
> but top running. Is this normal?

It doesn't sound normal to me. I'd expect Gnome to boot with about 1 GiB
RAM usage.

> The numbers listed per process in top don't even add up to that, but
> it reports the total being high. Also, icecat uses a 1000m and
> gnome-terminal uses 500m.

Depends how many tabs you have opened but yes, IceCat/Firefox/Any
browser are very memory hungry.

> This seems wrong to me, but I'm not sure. In my session right now it
> is reporting over 14GiB of memory use. I don't know why it should be
> so high.
>

Using the minimal desktop environment (ratpoison) with GuixSD I'm
booting with RAM usage of about 100 MiB.

Maxim

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