From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" Subject: Re: Memory Usage Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 13:58:02 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87h93k810e.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38151) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1chFRq-0005GE-Lk for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Feb 2017 07:58:11 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1chFRl-0002GE-T6 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Feb 2017 07:58:10 -0500 Received: from pelzflorian.de ([5.45.111.108]:47498 helo=mail.pelzflorian.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1chFRl-0002DT-I4 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Feb 2017 07:58:05 -0500 Received: from [131.246.174.235] (eduroam-ipv4-3-0747.triple-a.uni-kl.de [131.246.174.235]) by mail.pelzflorian.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 14F3036000F for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2017 13:58:02 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <87h93k810e.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org On 02/24/2017 09:08 AM, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: > Hi Rodger! >=20 > Rodger Fox writes: >=20 >> What is the typical memory usage of a GuixSD system? >> I can't seem to get mine below 5GiB, according to top. >=20 > Ugh. This with a full blown Gnome desktop? >=20 >> 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? >=20 > It doesn't sound normal to me. I'd expect Gnome to boot with about 1 Gi= B > RAM usage. >=20 >> 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. >=20 > Depends how many tabs you have opened but yes, IceCat/Firefox/Any > browser are very memory hungry. >=20 >> 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. >> >=20 > Using the minimal desktop environment (ratpoison) with GuixSD I'm > booting with RAM usage of about 100 MiB. >=20 > Maxim >=20 Full-blown GNOME Desktop shows in GNOME System Monitor as consuming <390 MiB of RAM. Opening the arstechica.com Web site in netsurf-gtk makes for a total of <490 MiB. Note that top can distinguish between =84readily reclaimable=93 memory an= d memory that is not =84readily reclaimable=93, which AFAIK is what is actually important. See the top man page. Regards, Florian