[RP] [OT] Got the small one, Sir, but the big one is still running lose

[Jesper Holmberg]

Having found Ratpoison in my search for a window manager that minimizes
the use of memory resources, I am very happy. It cannot be possible to
go lower than this, and the functionality is still excellent.

Now that I've reached way's end as far as window managers are concerned,
I took a look at the other X related processes running on my system,
finding this:

/home/jesper% ps aux     
USER   PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY  STAT START  TIME COMMAND
xfs    511  0.0  4.6  4116 3000 ?    S    20:36  0:00 xfs -port -1 -daemon 
-user xfs
jesper 543  0.0  1.1  2584  780 tty1 S    20:36  0:00 xinit 
/home/jesper/.xinitrc
root   995  0.9 10.6 12392 6904 ?    S    20:57  1:01 /etc/X11/X :0
jesper 998  0.0  1.5  2180 1020 tty1 S    20:58  0:00 ratpoison


Hence, it seems to me the (2180/1020) bytes that Ratpoison is using are
quite modest compared to what running X (and xfs) is requiring (12392/6904).

My question is this: do you people have any tips to share on how to make
my X environment require less memory? E.g. I'm running the standard
XFree86 4.02 Mandrake RPM. Would building XFree86 on my own result in a
smaller binary? Are there more efficient alternatives to xfs? etc, etc.

I know this is OT, so please discard if out of line.

Best,

Jesper

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                            "But how can one be warm alone?"

Jesper Holmberg                         address@hidden