Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 04:41:24PM +0200, Yosef Meller wrote:
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
guy keren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
you'll have to forgive oleg for not understanding why you're
bothered - he probably did not mess with gentoo and with its ebuild
system.
No, I haven't. But I still don't understand what the big deal is.
Here is the memory usage on my fully updated ("install everything" and
more) 64-bit FC4 on which I am typing this email:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1020000 464112 555888 0 35580 276324
-/+ buffers/cache: 152208 867792
Swap: 2097144 0 2097144
Used memory minus buffers and cache - 150MB. This is with the normal
(for workstation) services running + sendmail + KDE3.5.
And here is another computer I have at home - totally obsolete RH7.3
on a PIII:
Mem: 126308 119696 6612 0 79992 27252
-/+ buffers/cache: 12452 113856
Swap: 1020088 27752 992336
(it is not doing much at the moment, I grant you, but it looks very
happy with 128MB of RAM).
So, I really don't think that Gentoo has a monopoly on
efficiency. Yosef does not badly at all until he starts Matlab, or so
it seems to me.
You're right, but...
I just checked the box at my parents' house that's still running Gentoo.
It has a pretty close configuration, and it runs the same processes +-
(no hald, but with Samba and [EMAIL PROTECTED]). free reports only 91 MB used
(not counting buffered/cached). that's 60 MB less! I don't need them to
run my lungs, but it's still a big difference! And X is installed with
most use-flags on.
So why not use top, ps et. al. to see who actually consumes this memory?
I've already seen that X is the main hog before. Now that I'm near a
Gentoo box I compared the X config and found that the Kubuntu X runs
some extra modules - GLcore and some others. Sure enough, removing them
freed up a lot:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 247604 238144 9460 0 16284 118668
-/+ buffers/cache: 103192 144412
Swap: 249472 21872 227600
This with Thunderbird composer open. It seems that Gentoo really has no
monopoly on efficiency.
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