Re: Linux distro

Andrej Ricnik-Bay escribió:
> On 8/2/07, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)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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