LXLE Release - might be of interest to some

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 7:53 PM, Lars Noodén <lars.nooden at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10.03.2013 19:47, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Lars Noodén <lars.nooden at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> For a few months, ending yesterday, I was using a 64bit machine with 1GB
>>> RAM.  For my daily usage, it was about half a GB too small.  I have 3
>>> or 4 LXterminals, a browser with 10+ tabs, a chat client, Thunderbird
>>> and occasionally LibreOffice Writer and a second browser.  Most of the
>>> time it squeaked by with a little swap usage, but occasional actions
>>> (such as opening a bad marketing PDF) could cause it to thrash.  If I
>>> were just running one or two apps, I think 1GB could be more than just
>>> fine.  However, RAM usage seemed to always creep upwards during the
>>> course of the day.  Chromium-browser was one culprit.
>>>
>>> I switched back to a 4GB machine yesterday and am tracking RAM usage for
>>> a while.  So far it has been about 2.6 GB.
>>
>>
>> Are you talking about Lubuntu, or LXLE?
>
> Lubuntu.  On either system (1 GB or 4 GB) RAM usage creeps upward over
> time.  If I use the machine for a marathon session, especially on the 1
> GB system, swap starts to get used.  Here is RAM usage in KiB from "top"
> with a reboot after 19:30:
>
>         2013-03-10      19:00   2807492
>         2013-03-10      19:05   2811264
>         2013-03-10      19:10   3020268
>         2013-03-10      19:15   3022124
>         2013-03-10      19:20   3021356
>         2013-03-10      19:25   3024088
>         2013-03-10      19:30   2854100
>         2013-03-10      19:35   689544
>         2013-03-10      19:40   711864
>         2013-03-10      19:45   1384636
>         2013-03-10      19:50   1415660

By "marathon", do you mean the browser? Also you mentioend Chromium too.

I have Chrome installed, I did not notice any memory leaks. Do you
keep a browser window open for a long time?


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