bloated vs. lightweight WM's

[Andrew Conkling]

On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 17:28 -0400, purslow at sympatico.ca wrote: 
> On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 13:16, davidgn at servidor.unam.mx wrote:
> DE/WM                TOTAL MEM/PROC USAGE     DE/WM MEM/PROC USAGE
> ==================   ====================     ====================
> X                  - 335 MB, 158 procs
> gnome 2.6          - 522 MB, 232 procs        187 MB, 74 procs
> kde 3.2.2          - 513 MB, 215 procs        178 MB, 57 procs
> xfce4 4.0.5        - 515 MB, 209 procs        180 MB, 51 procs
> openbox 3.2        - 438 MB, 197 procs        103 MB, 39 procs
> fluxbox 0.9.9      - 454 MB, 202 procs        119 MB, 44 procs
> blackbox 0.65.0-r3 - 451 MB, 202 procs        116 MB, 44 procs
> iceWM 1.2.13       - 441 MB, 202 procs        106 MB, 44 procs

On my MDK 10.0 CE box (Pentium 4 1.3 GHz with 256 MB of RAM) with
Evolution, XMMS, and a few other programs running--in other words,
without bothering to close anything :)--I have only 54 total processes
running and only 103 MB total of RAM being used; how is it possible that
you have XFCE taking up 51 procs and 180 MB on its own?  Am I missing
something?

Disclaimer: I'm no Linux guru, just a home user, so forgive any possible
naivety.

Regards,
Andrew Conkling