xfce4 quick guide?...:)

[Olivier Fourdan]

> > (...)
> > 
> > >   PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
> > >16244 alex      13   0  2608 2608  1876 S     0.0  0.6   0:01 xfwm
> > >16253 alex       9   0  4748 4748  3404 S     0.0  1.2   0:01 xfce
> > >
> > >17110 alex      11   0  6564 6564  5348 S     0.0  1.7   0:00 xfwm4
> > >17119 alex       9   0  8372 8372  6536 S     0.0  2.1   0:00 xfce4
> > >
> > >:-(((
> > 
> > I'm afraid the memory usage will indeed be a lot higher. This is mostly
> > caused by GTK2. Naturally we would like to keep this as low as possible.
> > 
> > BTW, these values look high too me, but I'm not on linux right now, so I
> > will check later.
> 
> Perharps he didn't strip binaries and libraries ?

Nope, that's unrelated.

The interesting part is the "share" value. 

E.g.

> > >  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
> > >17110 alex      11   0  6564 6564  5348 S     0.0  1.7   0:00 xfwm4
> > >17119 alex       9   0  8372 8372  6536 S     0.0  2.1   0:00 xfce4

Which tells that on 6564 bytes for xfwm4, 5348 are shared.

Cheers,
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Olivier               <fourdan at xfce.org>            http://www.xfce.org
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