Hi All, Checking how much memory was in use on my new Devuan ASCII/CERES installation had in store a very pleasant surprise.
a) with only a terminal running and X NOT running, memory in use totalled 63 Mega Bytes. b) with firefox running under XFCE, the memory use was 337 Mega Bytes. Thanks to all involved in making GNU/Linux so efficient on resources. 63 Mega Bytes is even better than I used to get when I still used Debian Sarge on a much less powerful machine! Note that I did NOT tweak the OS specifically to use less RAM. The machine is HP Probook 4540s with: a) 4 Giga Bytes of RAM b) Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2450M CPU @ 2.50GHz c) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09) d) glxinfo: name of display: :0.0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: Yes server glx vendor string: SGI server glx version string: 1.4 .... Edward -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. Albert Einstein _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
