> Haha, makes me remember a comment from just the other day on Phoronix flexing that he booted into KDE, and it used only 1.7GB RAM (as a way to prove how lightweight it is).
Whenever i see such RAM usage scenarios i wonder what exactly is being tested.
Last time i checked, starting my environment had around 300MB of use (or something like that) - but when i measured (and stored) the free memory right before the window manager starts and a bit after, it turned out my window manager (Window Maker) actually only used about 5MB or so. The overwhelming majority of the rest was spread between background processes, many of them before even Xorg had a chance to blit a pixel on screen.
(and FWIW around that time i also checked KDE -it was KDE5 not 6- and its memory usage wasn't much, i don't remember how much it was but was much less than 1.7GB - probably 100-150 MBs or so, IIRC)
Whenever i see such RAM usage scenarios i wonder what exactly is being tested.
Last time i checked, starting my environment had around 300MB of use (or something like that) - but when i measured (and stored) the free memory right before the window manager starts and a bit after, it turned out my window manager (Window Maker) actually only used about 5MB or so. The overwhelming majority of the rest was spread between background processes, many of them before even Xorg had a chance to blit a pixel on screen.
(and FWIW around that time i also checked KDE -it was KDE5 not 6- and its memory usage wasn't much, i don't remember how much it was but was much less than 1.7GB - probably 100-150 MBs or so, IIRC)