Re: Linux distro

Andrej Ricnik-Bay escribió:
> On 8/2/07, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > A server with a GUI sitting on a login screen is wasting zero
> > resources.  Some enterprise management tools are in java which require
> > a GUI to use so there is very little downside to installing X, so IMO
> > a lightweight window manager is appropriate...a full gnome is maybe
> > overkill.  Obviously, you want to turn of the 3d screen saver :-)
> So you don't consider RAM a resource? :)
>
> I just went and rebooted my workstation, here's a top from
> just after the reboot, with the box idling on the xdm login prompt.

I think most of the virtual memory used by X is actually the map of the
graphics card's memory AFAIK, so it's not as significant as you think.

>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>   4735 root      18   0 52524 7204 4304 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.01 httpd
>  4820 root      15   0  141m 6648 3140 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.64 X


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