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.
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.
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 stop
It seems the kernel alone is using ~420 Mega Bytes! My installed kernel version is 3.2.0-4-rt-amd64. Running startx after stopping slim and saving the results shown below to a text file resulted into XFCE being loaded almost instantly. This shows that the kernel is doing some type of memory caching so that already used programs would use the same memory image avoiding reading and loading their executable code into memory. Unless there is a way of looking into what memory is chached by the kernel, memory use reporting alone is next to useless. Kernel memory caching is a brilliant idea to improve overall system response and to reduce having to read data from disks.
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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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