i only have 2GB RAM. On Mint xfce, with much web-browsing (esp on dynamically loading sites like youtube, quora, and facebook), plus multitasking with other apps, my RAM can pretty quickly max out. Then I get sluggishness or freeze-ups.
Porteus is already the smallest usable normal-linux xfce i've seen, which is awesome!
Except maybe puppy xtahr and xslacko-slim.
My xtahr 2.0 xfce idles at under 100MB on the same hardware. But puppy isn't normal-linux.
https://archive.org/download/Puppy_Linux_X-tahr
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 33#1003033
my xtahr idle gives:
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# ps aux --sort -rss
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 7127 3.7 0.8 81752 18228 tty4 S<sl+ 17:43 2:32 X :0 -br -noli
root 7222 0.0 0.7 60344 16344 tty1 Sl 17:43 0:02 xfdesktop
root 7305 0.0 0.6 37952 13612 tty1 Sl 17:43 0:01 /usr/lib/xfce4/
root 7214 0.8 0.6 29052 13112 tty1 S 17:43 0:32 xfwm4
root 7218 0.1 0.5 36148 12280 tty1 Sl 17:43 0:05 xfce4-panel
root 25893 0.8 0.5 54208 12176 tty1 Rl 18:50 0:00 xfce4-terminal
root 7254 0.4 0.4 25508 9748 tty1 S 17:43 0:16 retrovol -hide
root 7231 0.2 0.3 23376 8148 tty1 S 17:43 0:09 clipit
root 7249 0.1 0.3 22916 7788 tty1 S 17:43 0:06 netmon_wce
root 7220 0.0 0.3 58204 7320 tty1 Sl 17:43 0:00 Thunar --daemon
root 7251 0.0 0.3 22504 7152 tty1 S 17:43 0:00 powerapplet_tra
root 7236 0.2 0.3 22100 6924 tty1 S 17:43 0:10 firewallstatus
root 7245 0.0 0.3 22192 6784 tty1 S 17:43 0:00 freememapplet_t
root 7253 0.0 0.3 32428 6596 ? Ssl 17:43 0:00 xfsettingsd
root 7313 0.0 0.3 20888 6416 tty1 S 17:43 0:03 /usr/lib/xfce4/
root 7156 0.0 0.2 30024 5696 tty1 Sl 17:43 0:00 xfce4-session
root 7331 0.0 0.1 18220 3144 ? Sl 17:43 0:00 /usr/libexec/gv
root 7196 0.0 0.1 5840 2360 ? Ss 17:43 0:00 /usr/sbin/cupsd
root 7280 0.0 0.1 35300 2340 ? Ssl 17:43 0:00 /usr/libexec//g
root 7325 0.0 0.1 9464 2304 ? S 17:43 0:00 /usr/libexec/gv
root 7206 0.0 0.1 6472 2276 ? S 17:43 0:00 /usr/lib/xfce4/
root 7148 0.0 0.1 15712 2196 ? Sl 17:43 0:02 pup-volume-moni
root 7274 0.0 0.1 8000 2152 ? S 17:43 0:00 /usr/libexec/gv
root 25897 0.0 0.0 5124 1912 pts/0 Ss 18:50 0:00 bash
root 6988 0.0 0.0 5096 1840 tty1 Ss+ 17:43 0:00 -sh
root 7074 0.0 0.0 4980 1528 tty1 S+ 17:43 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bi
root 2754 0.0 0.0 4512 1208 ? Ss 17:43 0:01 /sbin/udevd --d
root 7197 0.0 0.0 2864 1172 ? Ss 17:43 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-d
root 27988 0.0 0.0 4632 1152 pts/0 R+ 18:51 0:00 ps-FULL aux --s
root 8321 0.0 0.0 6956 1108 ? Ss 17:44 0:00 wpa_supplicant
root 27921 0.0 0.0 4508 892 ? S 18:51 0:00 /sbin/udevd --d
root 6840 0.0 0.0 3312 836 ? Ss 17:43 0:00 /sbin/mount.ntf
root 8363 0.0 0.0 2460 832 ? Ss 17:44 0:00 dhcpcd -b -d -f
root 6788 0.0 0.0 3312 820 ? Ss 17:43 0:00 /sbin/mount.ntf
root 2399 0.2 0.0 1184 772 ? Ss 17:43 0:11 ntfs-3g /dev/sd
root 7193 0.0 0.0 3816 672 tty1 S 17:43 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-l
root 7126 0.0 0.0 3600 664 tty1 S+ 17:43 0:00 /usr/bin/xinit
root 6989 0.0 0.0 2844 632 tty2 Ss+ 17:43 0:00 /sbin/getty 384
root 6994 0.0 0.0 2844 632 tty3 Ss+ 17:43 0:00 /sbin/getty 384
root 25896 0.0 0.0 2232 624 tty1 S 18:50 0:00 gnome-pty-helpe
root 1 0.0 0.0 2840 600 ? Ss 17:43 0:00 /bin/busybox in
root 7169 0.0 0.0 2472 492 tty1 S 17:43 0:00 /usr/local/pup_
root 7143 0.0 0.0 2840 292 ? Ss 17:43 0:00 syslogd -m 0
root 7145 0.0 0.0 2840 292 ? Ss 17:43 0:00 klogd
root 8464 0.0 0.0 2840 292 ? Ss 17:44 0:02 acpid
root 7212 0.0 0.0 4208 196 ? Ss 17:43 0:00 /usr/bin/ssh-ag
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# top
Mem: 1397160K used, 664548K free, 0K shrd, 48K buff, 123K cached
CPU: 2% usr 2% sys 0% nic 92% idle 2% io 0% irq 0% sirq
Load average: 0.89 0.61 0.50 2/139 20457
PID PPID USER STAT VSZ %VSZ CPU %CPU COMMAND
7127 7126 root S < 95532 5% 1 1% X :0 -br -nolisten tcp
20104 7218 root S 53736 3% 0 1% xfce4-terminal
7254 7156 root S 25508 1% 0 0% retrovol -hide
3 2 root SW 0 0% 0 0% [ksoftirqd/0]
7214 1 root S 23572 1% 0 0% xfwm4
7222 1 root S 60208 3% 1 0% xfdesktop
7253 1 root S 32428 2% 1 0% xfsettingsd
7231 7156 root S 23376 1% 0 0% clipit
7236 7156 root S 22100 1% 0 0% firewallstatus
20402 20109 root R 4380 0% 0 0% top
8457 2 root RW 0 0% 0 0% [kworker/0:1]
7305 7218 root S 37952 2% 0 0% {panel-9-whisker} /usr/lib/xfce4/p
7218 1 root S 36148 2% 1 0% xfce4-panel
7280 1 root S 35300 2% 0 0% /usr/libexec//gvfs-fuse-daemon /ro
7220 1 root S 31472 2% 0 0% Thunar --daemon
7156 7126 root S 30024 1% 1 0% xfce4-session
7249 7156 root S 22916 1% 0 0% netmon_wce
7251 7156 root S 22504 1% 1 0% powerapplet_tray
7245 7156 root S 22192 1% 1 0% freememapplet_tray
7313 7218 root S 20888 1% 0 0% {panel-6-systray} /usr/lib/xfce4/p
THX