To be fair, I installed Trinity Desktop using tde-trinity which pulled many packages that I didn't want to install. The selection of automatically chosen software was clearly aimed at common computer users who only use a computer to chat, surf the net, write emails, watch videos, listen to music and share files.dzz wrote:Running TDE here on a number of Debian systems since it was first forked. I never experienced what edbarx wrote about TDE in dozens+ of TDE installs (but not nearly as good as Hallvor posted). It's normally similar resource usage to xfce4, which I also use. A TDE installation can be anything from tde-base-trinity (basic DE) to tde-trinity (monster meta). That might make a difference, I don't install the meta. Whether you use a display manager (on this box, TDM) or startx likely counts.
If I remember well there was also file indexing going on, sudo was installed and su failed to recognise my root password.
ADDED LATER:
The following memory usage is after I stopped slim and XFCE using the command:
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# /etc/init.d/slim stopCode: Select all
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1941 466 1474 6 41 327
-/+ buffers/cache: 97 1843
Swap: 0 0 0
Private + Shared = RAM used Program
116.0 KiB + 18.0 KiB = 134.0 KiB uuidd
196.0 KiB + 34.5 KiB = 230.5 KiB atd
232.0 KiB + 61.5 KiB = 293.5 KiB init
188.0 KiB + 164.5 KiB = 352.5 KiB avahi-autoipd (2)
328.0 KiB + 38.0 KiB = 366.0 KiB rpc.idmapd
384.0 KiB + 38.5 KiB = 422.5 KiB gpg-agent
324.0 KiB + 104.5 KiB = 428.5 KiB cron
380.0 KiB + 57.0 KiB = 437.0 KiB acpid
456.0 KiB + 153.5 KiB = 609.5 KiB rpcbind
664.0 KiB + 162.5 KiB = 826.5 KiB rpc.statd
512.0 KiB + 325.5 KiB = 837.5 KiB su
812.0 KiB + 71.0 KiB = 883.0 KiB dbus-daemon
680.0 KiB + 324.5 KiB = 1.0 MiB login
740.0 KiB + 332.5 KiB = 1.0 MiB getty (5)
1.1 MiB + 86.5 KiB = 1.2 MiB udevd
1.3 MiB + 76.5 KiB = 1.3 MiB rsyslogd
1.5 MiB + 50.0 KiB = 1.5 MiB wpa_supplicant
1.3 MiB + 647.0 KiB = 1.9 MiB polkitd
1.6 MiB + 831.0 KiB = 2.4 MiB console-kit-daemon
2.2 MiB + 123.5 KiB = 2.4 MiB privoxy
2.2 MiB + 762.0 KiB = 3.0 MiB upowerd
3.0 MiB + 969.0 KiB = 3.9 MiB bash (2)
13.6 MiB + 183.0 KiB = 13.8 MiB dhclient (2)
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39.1 MiB
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