From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Maxim Cournoyer Subject: Re: Memory Usage Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 00:08:01 -0800 Message-ID: <87h93k810e.fsf@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35278) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1chAuq-00078e-Uw for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Feb 2017 03:07:49 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1chAup-0003IE-VL for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Feb 2017 03:07:48 -0500 Received: from mail-pg0-x231.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c05::231]:34979) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1chAup-0003I6-Oe for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Feb 2017 03:07:47 -0500 Received: by mail-pg0-x231.google.com with SMTP id b129so8606135pgc.2 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2017 00:07:47 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: (Rodger Fox's message of "Wed, 22 Feb 2017 11:37:11 -0800") 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 Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Hi Rodger! Rodger Fox 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 --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEJ9WGpPiQCFQyn/CfEmDkZILmNWIFAliv6eEACgkQEmDkZILm NWJ72g/7BIv0vnWXFhDj7AHIhMWw7HGO7FUf2E3fBq+eJPFH2/RPYK9S07ptSAS6 4/6RMmXb6sTqzBwSpPV9MVa7W9jUfAnSzoY5ukHlJoi0W3s0Nbm2dXRV78SFqNU2 uGpHZFCdD6DVDVc+Z3XHK57mU0wIFbkjgkSq06aQ47uwjeQ0fxMd92ymJCEzE8p6 XLCYgbWLtSMtieHIA7l/ZV0uufxCvodv1/262uyr4OGb6bFkWCEu1B5XJ+4Kqj8d aT9uEbnocWHV6Sz/BT+KvA7oZjq/d3FY+6e6kxFNGQwNYM+oFFN3994fNyZIQdBk YKGwPLa5VhHxz3sR/sEHlhJQDNjiA6dyQlv9qoNku0DWCa0/06wQ6k5uqDGWk98O wTKR81w31d1QCA6OqT9awYxEj5k1A2v98kQMFNYEJyXQfNuVJPVjhUyY/u1cci2T wZG8sY20yFI9LMWiPAsZ9GKZYisYXkLSt69CDmQpIin9zOKUOAj7ytd9QX6k0Y26 injxaFQl8hCkBT4PiKRjWBak2YtmQGuPj8ttuYMuKoCGU+BUNXsZkTZ/QeHsExPG EYtVID/u5EjLiVHb+hOYD7FQdVlaUgVoLU1/e432Xvkr0fSZ+9ha/9HQKNhJi/ej +/mAEecV5ajAjajiobXSvdtXYmJiP6pMD8UFYY7sMpnb5x/+Eq4= =KOfU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--