Just recalling the old days... probably around 2007:
I just checked out the smallest OS, probably thats KolibriOS: https://kolibrios.org/en/Gnome would run at average 110MB RAM without any application, on login, if I am not wrong.
Demanding only minimalistic 8MB RAM for runtime. But I tested on virtualbox with 128MB RAM.
Interesting to note, while looking at my Openbox DE, and then ... here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments ... h=c52c0aef
My Debian 9 Openbox Values:
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free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 3.7G 258M 3.1G 31M 392M 3.2G
Swap: 1.8G 0B 1.8G
conky gives:
356MiB
top gives:
KiB Mem : 3919604 total, 3011820 free, 323916 used, 583868 buff/cache
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free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 3.7G 275M 3.0G 44M 432M 3.2G
Swap: 1.8G 0B 1.8G
conky gives:
324 MiB
top gives:
GiB Mem : 13.9/3.738
1. why too much high ram consumed now, compared to Gnome2 was perhaps.
2. Debian Openbox consumes: 200MB+, approx on login.
3. Puppy Linux demands, the current version: 1gb ram
4. Except for the web pages, the rest of my work is same, but this ram consumption is not understandable.
If I am using openbox, then the system startup to openbox, the ram consumption via conky should never exceed 100MB. I dont feel much difference comparing to xfce & cinnamon, atleast, personally. Openbox should be more sleaker and faster.
Thankyou