Hi Rodger! Rodger Fox <[email protected]> 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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