[dev] Re: DWM vs XFCE4 Memory Usage

From: Anthony Martin <ality_AT_pbrane.org>
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 01:40:24 -0800

Roger <rogerx.oss_AT_gmail.com> once said:
> Checking memory usage between XFCE4 and DWM,
> I find XFCE4 uses only ~30MB more then DWM.
>
> 100MB - DWM + Xorg
> 130MB - XFCE4
>
> 2x750 P3 w/ 1GB RAM
>
> (I'm going to gander, Xorg uses around 60-70MB,
> with 20-30MB for other resources. Man Xorg is a
> beast on memory!)

How did you measure this? I don't believe it.
These days dwm is considered tiny. Even Xorg
isn't that big compared to "modern" web browsers.

% uname -rms
Linux 3.1.4-1-ARCH i686

% grep '^Vm(Size|RSS)' /proc/`{pgrep X}^/status
VmSize: 21920 kB
VmRSS: 10036 kB

% grep '^Vm(Size|RSS)' /proc/`{pgrep dwm}^/status
VmSize: 5376 kB
VmRSS: 696 kB

  Anthony
Received on Mon Dec 05 2011 - 10:40:24 CET