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 can't seem to get mine below 5GiB, according to top. > 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? > 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. > 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. > > -Rodger >
