From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: Memory Usage Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 15:29:56 -0500 Message-ID: <20170222202956.GA29816@jasmine> References: <20170222195123.arj5tacfjxbkearn@wasp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59877) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cgdY1-0005vx-5e for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2017 15:30:01 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cgdXy-0003Jd-2B for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2017 15:30:01 -0500 Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]:36700) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cgdXx-0003JZ-St for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2017 15:29:57 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170222195123.arj5tacfjxbkearn@wasp> 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: Rodger Fox , guix-devel@gnu.org 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.