guy keren wrote:
The largest process I could find is Xorg, which (according to pmap)
consumes about 150M, very little of it is libc and libdl.
please note that the memory reported for the X server normally also
contains the RAM of the display controller - which is not part of RAM. if,
for example, your display controller has 64MB of RAM, then almost 64MB of
the 150MB reported for the X server are of this memory.
I didn't know that. Anyway, all I have is the ThinkPad's built-in chip.
Reduction in executable size, mostly achievable by removing unnecessary
features, but a bit by better-optimised output, and I thought maybe
someone could tell me something about stripping (default in Gentoo) and
other techniques. Also, empirical data: the previously mentioned Gentoo
system that was compiled from scratch (and I had two other comparable
Gentoo systems in thee past). You can question my data, as I can't get
it now, but I know what I know.
you'll have to forgive oleg for not understanding why you're bothered - he
probably did not mess with gentoo and with its ebuild system.
you should ask yourself - why did you neglect gentoo and switch to
kubuntu? kubuntu, as far as i know, does not try to optimize the low
memory consumption. any binary distribution cannot do that easily.
if this memory consumption issue outweights what you gain from kubuntu
(and i imagine you made the switch in order to gain something) - then
switch back to gentoo.
I'm trying to gain better-configured subsystems, like hal and friends,
and it seems that I gained that. It was a sometimes pain to set up new
stuff in Gentoo. I'll have to see if it's worth the switch, but I'm
stuck with it at least untill passover, so I have time for a long
evaluation :-)
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