Xandros 3.0.1 and resource usage ?

[FastGame]

Got a Lil' wimp box, 800 Duron 320mb PC133, dual boot XP and Xandros.

When I boot to Win XP has 17 processes running using 104mb of system ram. Boot to Xandros and it has 63 processes using 250mb of system ram.

I thought Linux is suppose to use less resources than Windows, did I do something wrong

Please help FG like Linux.

Thanks

[Big Booger]

Got a Lil' wimp box, 800 Duron 320mb PC133, dual boot XP and Xandros.

When I boot to Win XP has 17 processes running using 104mb of system ram. Boot to Xandros and it has 63 processes using 250mb of system ram.

I thought Linux is suppose to use less resources than Windows, did I do something wrong

Please help FG like Linux.

Thanks

http://forums.xandros.com/viewtopic....ight=ram+usage

[rik]

Good to see you're checkin it out FG

[FastGame]

Good to see you're checkin it out FG

Yeah I really like Xandros, its pretty easy and most Windows users should have few if any problems switching over....unless you're a dial-up user

Thanks BB for the link, but now I'm more seemed like some double talk going on.

[rik]

Essentially what they thread is saying is that it is showing all those resources being used, but it isn't literal usage...if that makes sense. Some of that usage is basically just cache or swap.

[FastGame]

Well ok...

[rik]

I found an article that might explain this better...

http://virtualthreads.blogspot.com/2...-on-linux.html

This entry is for those people who have ever wondered, "Why the hell is a simple KDE text editor taking up 25 megabytes of memory?" Many people are led to believe that many Linux applications, especially KDE or Gnome programs, are "bloated" based solely upon what tools like ps report. While this may or may not be true, depending on the program, it is not generally true -- many programs are much more memory efficient than they seem.

What ps reports
The ps tool can output various pieces of information about a process, such as it's process id, current running state, and resource utilization. Two of the possible outputs are VSZ and RSS, which stand for "virtual set size" and "resident set size", which are commonly used by geeks around the world to see how much memory processes are taking up.

*Lots more at the link*