Xfce users: How many panel apps are you running?
Look at what I have running in Xfce 4.4 on my OpenBSD 4.4 laptop. Do you think I should stop some of these Xfce services that I have in my panels? There are maybe seven or eight in there that use about 10 MB of RAM each. On this 768 MB system, should I be giving up 70 MB of RAM to panel apps in Xfce? I like seeing them in the panel. I like knowing when the CPU is spiking, seeing how the network is running and how I'm doing on disk space (I'm monitoring both /usr and /home in the panel).
The desktop looks like this, only more so — I've added a few apps to the panel, plus the Xfce notes app.
But clearly I could turn all this junk off and free up some memory (and probably some CPU, too).
Do you run your desktop with lots of little widgets?
Here's the output of top (sorry about the spacing, I used the <pre> tag to preserve the spacing between words but haven't figured out how to deal with the spacing between lines):
load averages: 0.57, 0.39, 0.29 16:43:12 53 processes: 1 running, 51 idle, 1 on processor CPU states: 8.8% user, 1.4% nice, 1.4% system, 0.1% interrupt, 88.2% idle Memory: Real: 224M/344M act/tot Free: 396M Swap: 0K/306M used/totPID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE WAIT TIME CPU COMMAND
5255 steven 2 0 44M 71M sleep poll 0:26 11.08% firefox-bin
26867 steven 34 0 18M 32M run - 9:53 4.05% Xorg
26938 steven 2 0 3864K 12M sleep poll 0:08 0.15% xfce4-panel
10055 steven 2 0 41M 69M sleep poll 2:39 0.00% thunderbird-
19491 steven 2 0 2324K 9260K sleep poll 1:11 0.00% xfce4-netloa
22662 steven 2 0 2292K 9224K sleep poll 0:53 0.00% xfce4-system
643 steven 2 0 2456K 9268K sleep poll 0:29 0.00% xfce4-netloa
26276 steven 2 0 4456K 15M sleep poll 0:15 0.00% xfdesktop
8416 steven 2 0 2340K 9148K sleep poll 0:13 0.00% xfce4-diskpe
6606 steven 2 0 2900K 10M sleep poll 0:09 0.00% xfce4-menu-p
12216 steven 2 0 2992K 10M sleep poll 0:09 0.00% xfce4-fsguar
16991 steven 2 0 2980K 10M sleep poll 0:09 0.00% xfce4-fsguar
30681 steven 2 0 5456K 16M sleep poll 0:07 0.00% Terminal
11545 steven 2 0 2156K 9872K sleep poll 0:06 0.00% xfwm4
21196 steven 2 0 5464K 16M sleep poll 0:05 0.00% Thunar
28220 steven 2 0 2752K 7108K sleep poll 0:04 0.00% xfce-mcs-man
11890 steven 2 0 2928K 11M sleep poll 0:02 0.00% mousepad
15329 root 2 0 1160K 1436K sleep select 0:00 0.00% sendmail
2150 steven 2 0 3104K 10M idle poll 0:00 0.00% xfce4-notes-
7773 _ntp 2 0 468K 732K idle poll 0:00 0.00% ntpd
21843 root 2 0 1232K 2496K sleep poll 0:00 0.00% cupsd
30306 steven 2 0 1256K 3768K sleep select 0:00 0.00% xterm
13675 steven 2 0 1500K 6484K idle poll 0:00 0.00% xfce4-sessio
2409 steven 2 0 936K 3120K sleep poll 0:00 0.00% gconfd-2
8113 steven 2 0 676K 1376K sleep poll 0:00 0.00% top
12504 _syslogd 2 0 536K 664K sleep poll 0:00 0.00% syslogd
9988 root 2 0 516K 792K sleep select 0:00 0.00% cron
17621 root 2 0 676K 776K idle poll 0:00 0.00% ntpd
2399 steven 18 0 444K 404K idle pause 0:00 0.00% ksh
6990 steven 2 0 420K 1092K idle netio 0:00 0.00% gnome-pty-he
29096 steven 2 0 628K 1220K idle poll 0:00 0.00% dbus-daemon
5514 steven 18 0 480K 396K sleep pause 0:00 0.00% ksh
13069 steven 18 0 480K 428K idle pause 0:00 0.00% sh
23547 steven 10 0 416K 1056K idle wait 0:00 0.00% xinit
32715 steven 18 0 580K 412K idle pause 0:00 0.00% sh
20774 steven 18 0 460K 404K idle pause 0:00 0.00% sh
16958 steven 18 0 416K 460K idle pause 0:00 0.00% sh
11067 steven 18 0 592K 396K idle pause 0:00 0.00% ksh
1 root 10 0 396K 272K idle wait 0:00 0.00% init
10244 steven 18 0 588K 460K idle pause 0:00 0.00% sh
3423 root 3 0 312K 756K idle ttyin 0:00 0.00% getty
24277 steven 2 0 412K 1264K idle poll 0:00 0.00% dbus-launch
31493 root 2 0 388K 692K idle select 0:00 0.00% inetd
19182 root 3 0 212K 756K idle ttyin 0:00 0.00% getty
10476 root 3 0 212K 764K idle ttyin 0:00 0.00% getty
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