• From: Cheney, Wa
  • Registered: 2011-10-29
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Topic: Ram usage on boot thread

Hello,

I have #! statler running on my laptop, and i wanted to see how low we can get with ran usage on boot.  Mine is 179 MB.

http://i.imgur.com/DdVYd.png

Can anyone beat that?

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  • dubois
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Re: Ram usage on boot thread

http://ompldr.org/tYjF1dg

However without knowing system specs this is rather meaningless -- no disrespect.  Oh, 78.7MB although it initially showed 66MB.


EDIT -- Mine is an ASUS 1015PEM 2GB RAM from a fresh start.  Someone help me phrase this correctly: two cpus is called twin core, correct??  hmm

Last edited by dubois (2011-10-31 12:46:16)

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  • From: Cheney, Wa
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Re: Ram usage on boot thread

dubois wrote:

However without knowing system specs this is rather meaningless -- no disrespect.

Knew I forgot something.

That is with a Dell (I forget the model name, it's new) laptop with 4x core laptop and 8 GB ram.

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Re: Ram usage on boot thread

I always found those 80mb at boot amazing. When I boot Arch 32bit with only wicd and dbus, it's 39mb already, with slim+x it's usually >150mb (because of the nvidia blob) and never below 120mb on the netbook. Booya, crunchbang!

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  • From: Fayetteville, Arkansas
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Re: Ram usage on boot thread

Does booting into run level 3 count?

  • From: inside Ed
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Re: Ram usage on boot thread

Awebb wrote:

I always found those 80mb at boot amazing. When I boot Arch 32bit with only wicd and dbus, it's 39mb already, with slim+x it's usually >150mb (because of the nvidia blob) and never below 120mb on the netbook. Booya, crunchbang!

You can't boot into less than 150 with nvidia and catalyst. My system is using nearly 600 MB now, and I'm running scrotwm, no compositing, no display manager, nothing but Firefox really.

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Re: Ram usage on boot thread

Once had under 35 MB on my S10 Lenovo, here's a bit more:
http://ompldr.org/tYTJ0cg

The desktop is fully functional, has to be said.

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Re: Ram usage on boot thread

@el_koraco: I have hopes for Wayland to be a solution for this. If it's really a GL solution, the visual stuff might be outsourced to the VRAM.

I'm not a RAM zealot at all, but I'm into building embedded devices lately and I'd like to use as little RAM as possible on these things. 256MB DDR3 are as cheap as an apple and an egg (cheap as peanuts :-D), and the smaller the RAM the less errors I have to deal with.

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Re: Ram usage on boot thread

Plus, you could win forum points with your free -m.

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  • From: #! NightClub
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Re: Ram usage on boot thread

On my Debian Testing with Xfce I have about 90 MB RAM at startup of my 1.9 GB of full RAM. Now I use about 600 MB with Iceweasel, Qmmp, JDownloader, Transmission and Thunar running. I have an Intel laptop.

@dubois: Dual Core my friend. smile

Edit: 3.0.0-1-686-pae kernel on 32 bit.

Did not put a screenshot but I won't reboot just for that. wink

Last edited by ivanovnegro (2011-10-31 19:51:16)

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  • From: Cheney, Wa
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Re: Ram usage on boot thread

tmillic wrote:

Does booting into run level 3 count?

No, it has to be running X with a fully usable desktop

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Re: Ram usage on boot thread

dubois wrote:

EDIT -- Mine is an ASUS 1015PEM 2GB RAM from a fresh start.  Someone help me phrase this correctly: two cpus is called twin core, correct??  hmm


I've never heard anybody call it a twin core, but I assume you could. I know they're referred to as dual-core though. Twin core sounds a bit more badass though.

Anyway mine is around 100mbs. I'll restart in a bit and post a picture. It's 3gbs RAM, 2.0GHZ dual core system.

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Re: Ram usage on boot thread

^ Thanks!  That was the word I was searching my poor old brain for.  Dual-core.  Even sounds cool.  cool


EDIT -- thanks to you, too, ivanovnegro.

Last edited by dubois (2011-10-31 16:23:25)

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Re: Ram usage on boot thread

We should start calling it Zwilling whore!

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Re: Ram usage on boot thread

WHAT?!?  Please explain in language old-timers can understand, por favor.  wink

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Re: Ram usage on boot thread

Zwilling is German for twin, and whore sounds a little like core big_smile

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Re: Ram usage on boot thread

ok, enough about those zwilling whores!

just came in to report my ram-usage at boot is 129Mb.

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Re: Ram usage on boot thread

http://en.zimagez.com/miniature/2011-10-31-2110441280x800scrot.png

Not very impressive I guess. lol

With #! I used to get a bit less than 70mb

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Re: Ram usage on boot thread

It would be helpful if people posted their kernel version and architecture as well, me thinks.

Netbook, i686/32bit: Fresh boot + 2 Urxvt terminals
http://ompldr.org/tYjJkdA

Could be lower, but I've got a few daemons I need. Noticed the 3.0 and 3.1 kernels tend to have a bigger 'footprints' compared to 2.6.38/39 versions. Also suspect the Broadcrap-lpphy driver uses more than necessary, like all proprietary shit >_>

Last edited by gutterslob (2011-10-31 19:18:15)

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Re: Ram usage on boot thread

^Would you mind sharing those colors?

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Re: Ram usage on boot thread

^They're very close to the one I posted here:
http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/125953/#p125953

Try that first.

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Last edited by gutterslob (2011-10-31 19:35:58)

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Re: Ram usage on boot thread

gutterslob wrote:

It would be helpful if people posted their kernel version and architecture as well, me thinks.

You are right, editted my first post.

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  • Registered: 2011-05-23
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Re: Ram usage on boot thread

With mpd, openbox, conky, ssh: +/- 60-70 MB.

Used as dvdripper (mencoder) and HTPC.  2.6.32-generic (ubuntu 10.04) on ASUS M6, intel celeron 1.6GHz, 512mb ram.

Not that impressive, I guess... So, no scrot unless requested ;-)

EDIT: removed consolekit, now playing music at 45-50 MB

Last edited by El_Belgicano (2011-11-01 08:40:28)

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Re: Ram usage on boot thread

My laptop uses 65-80 depending on how it's currently configured. 2.6.38-686bpo kernel with an intel vid card. Of course since I use terminator and firefox that jumps above the 150 MB mark as soon as I actually open something.

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Re: Ram usage on boot thread

^ Yeah, most of the time, Iceweasel/Firefox is the app that needs most of the resources.

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