On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 11:51 PM, Devendra Laulkar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > >> Debian was the first distro I looked at for the purpose. I saw its RAM >> requirements were 512 Megs (recommended) and 64 Megs minimal. Xubuntu >> on my 1 Gig system takes up about 540 Megs on an idle system with no >> swap used at 60% swappiness. > > 540 Megs seems to bit off for Xubuntu. My Xubuntu system uses around > 256MB for an idle system plus few programs like pidgin and xchat. How > do you define an "idle" system ?
Freshly installed Xubuntu desktop system, latest updates applied from Internet, added Adobe Flashplayer as well Gnash to Firefox. No other customizations done. A single firefox instance with 6 tabs - no fancy flash stuff though. I did notice in the System Monitor that firefox was taking 92 MiBs. Wondering why this would be so. If I do a cat /proc/meminfo, I get: MemTotal: 1009516 kB MemFree: 517540 kB ... SwapTotal: 2000084 kB SwapFree: 2000084 kB If I look at the System Monitior GUI, I see Memory used 228.7 MiB of 985.9 MiB, Swap used 0 bytes of 1.9 GiB. Even if I calculate the kB in MiB (mibibytes) this much disparity shouldn't be there. In such cases I would trust the /proc entries over the GUI. Where did you do your reading? Do you see any such disparity in your system? > If you have the bandwidth and the patience, you can use the minimal > install CD provided by Ubuntu. However, I think you may be better off > by looking at existing distros and analyzing the programs using the > memory. > I guess I have the bandwidth ... the patience gene is absent in the family :). Do you mean the Xubuntu Server or the Alternate Install? Was wondering how far can software installs on top of a base system be scripted. _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
