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CrunchBang Linux 8.10

Posted Feb 27, 2009 14:57 UTC (Fri) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183)
In reply to: CrunchBang Linux 8.10 by alankila
Parent article: CrunchBang Linux 8.10

From top output:

RES SHR COMMAND
220m 28m firefox
123m 14m Xorg
100m 21m pidgin
76m 26m thunderbird-bin
39m 16m gedit
34m 14m nautilus
32m 14m gnome-terminal
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CrunchBang Linux 8.10

Posted Feb 27, 2009 15:17 UTC (Fri) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183) [Link]

For comparision, the editor "joe" (with just one file, but it was twice as large as the total length of the three in gedit) had a resident size of 2M.

CrunchBang Linux 8.10

Posted Feb 27, 2009 16:14 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Much of xorg's RSS is going to be things like mmap()ed video memory: not relevant here.

CrunchBang Linux 8.10

Posted Feb 27, 2009 16:16 UTC (Fri) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183) [Link]

Ah, I was wondering...