bloated vs. lightweight WM's

[Olivier]

> > How do you actually measure the memory used? Your
> > numbers look fairly
> > suspicious to me.
> 
> Try > cat /proc/meminfo

You know that the OS is caching data, don't you. Better use the "free"
command and read the "-/+ buffers/cache:" line to get the actual memory
usage (minus the OS caching which has nothing to do with actual process
memory usage)

E.g.:

$ free
             total    used    free  shared  buffers  cached
Mem:        256352  246984    9368       0    21856   84620
-/+ buffers/cache:  140508  115844
Swap:       345356     260  345096

Means that on my system, I have barely 140Mb used, very very far from
the 500+ Mb listed...

Cheers,
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 - Olivier Fourdan - fourdan at xfce.org - http://www.xfce.org -