Slackware potential restructuring

saxa · 07-30-2018, 05:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kikinovak

GNOME : 970 MB

This seems quite high to me.

I just checked on ym system , Salckware64-14.2 with dropline gnome 3.20 on it, this is what i get:

Code:

Tasks: 268 total,   1 running, 267 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
%Cpu(s):  4.4 us,  1.8 sy,  0.0 ni, 93.8 id,  0.0 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  0.0 st
MiB Mem :   7870.2 total,   4821.0 free,   1941.2 used,   1108.0 buff/cache
MiB Swap:   8192.0 total,   8147.3 free,     44.7 used.   5399.1 avail Mem 

  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU  %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND                                                                           
 1781 rc        20   0 2438652 384384 115348 S   8.3   4.8   9:01.80 firefox                                                                           
 1823 rc        20   0 2225648 502456 114320 S   8.3   6.2   5:50.08 Web Content                                                                       
 1314 root      20   0  367180  71552  54540 S   3.0   0.9   2:23.38 Xorg                                                                              
 1366 rc        20   0 1707768 214644  66120 S   2.7   2.7   4:03.63 gnome-shell                                                                       
 2959 rc        20   0  607784  33400  23504 S   1.7   0.4   0:00.73 gnome-terminal-                                                                   
 3672 root      20   0   20896   3132   2424 R   0.7   0.0   0:00.11 top                                                                               
 3175 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.3   0.0   0:00.41 kworker/u32:61                                                                    
    1 root      20   0    4372   1444   1424 S   0.0   0.0   0:01.70 init                                                                              
    2 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.0   0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd                                                                          
    3 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.0   0.0   0:00.04 ksoftirqd/0

philanc · 07-30-2018, 05:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kikinovak

Just yesterday I tested this on a vanilla CentOS 7 installation. Running desktop with only one open terminal application.

KDE : 450 MB
Xfce : 290 MB
GNOME : 970 MB

[OT]
I am not even commenting on the Gnome and KDE figures. But XFCE, 290 MB for the lightweight desktop... Is it XFCE? CentOS?

The more it goes, the more I admire what Windows 95 could do on a PC with at least 4MB RAM.

There is some mystery here. What 286 MB bought us?
[/OT]

jakedp · 07-30-2018, 05:10 PM

Bling!

enorbet · 07-30-2018, 06:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by philanc

[OT]
I am not even commenting on the Gnome and KDE figures. But XFCE, 290 MB for the lightweight desktop... Is it XFCE? CentOS?

The more it goes, the more I admire what Windows 95 could do on a PC with at least 4MB RAM.

There is some mystery here. What 286 MB bought us?
[/OT]

[OT] Ummm yeah it was DOS with a shell. If you admire that you would be in complete gob-smacked awe had you used OS/2 an actual 32 bit Multitasking,

PreEmptive bottom-to-top system by 1991. Maybe you remember actually trying to utilize anything more than 1MB RAM with Win95. Did you buy and use QEMM?

OS/2 directly mapped orders of magnitude more RAM with no such problematic Extended Memory shenanigans. By 1996 it was fully SMP capable, came with (built

in, at no additional cost) Internet capable networking including a built-in browser, Java, Lotus Notes, Voice command and recognition, and a complete Office

suite and still ran on 4MB RAM, partly because it was written almost entirely in Assembly. Incidentally by 1999 one could compile Unix apps and run an

Enlightenment Linux DE. It's a crime IBM didn't have Billy and the Boys' marketing savvy or, conversely, that MS didn't have IBM's high standards and

computer genius[OT]

glorsplitz · 07-30-2018, 07:47 PM

Maybe addons like
KDE : 450 MB
Xfce : 290 MB
GNOME : 970 MB
etc : ??? GB
be packaged on a 'packages' separate dvd/image

then base slackware system has hooks to install which dvd/image user points to where mounted during system install or later

that way base slackware install dvd/image is not bloated

or am I thinking of some other distro I vbox'd some time ago that did this, can't remember which