From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: Rodger Fox <thylakoid@openmailbox.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Memory Usage
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 00:08:01 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h93k810e.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c22701e56b9b993b0d9e4e8c85c42680@openmailbox.org> (Rodger Fox's message of "Wed, 22 Feb 2017 11:37:11 -0800")
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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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-24 8:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-22 19:37 Memory Usage Rodger Fox
2017-02-22 19:51 ` ng0
2017-02-22 20:28 ` Rodger Fox
2017-02-23 8:10 ` Tomáš Čech
2017-02-22 20:29 ` Leo Famulari
2017-02-24 8:08 ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
2017-02-24 12:58 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
[not found] <mailman.54514.1487943211.22740.guix-devel@gnu.org>
2017-02-24 16:40 ` Rodger Fox
2017-04-27 7:33 ` Maxim Cournoyer
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