Openbox Standalone

[ratcheer]

No, I would not say there is a major performance difference. There is just less stuff running, so there is less RAM usage.

However, as time passes and I keep adding more features to my DE, it is becoming more and more like a packaged DE. For example, in just the past two days, I have added ntpd, ufw, sensors, and alsa to my startup deamons. (Remember, I am talking about my Arch installation, not Sabayon). It is interesting to run a minimal desktop, but in the end, you have to get things done.

Tim

[chasha420]

No, I would not say there is a major performance difference. There is just less stuff running, so there is less RAM usage.

However, as time passes and I keep adding more features to my DE, it is becoming more and more like a packaged DE. For example, in just the past two days, I have added ntpd, ufw, sensors, and alsa to my startup deamons. (Remember, I am talking about my Arch installation, not Sabayon). It is interesting to run a minimal desktop, but in the end, you have to get things done.

Tim

That's what I was wanting to hear...could you give me an estimate of how much less RAM difference there is? Like I mentioned previously my laptop is limited only because of it's RAM (1GB) and that's why I decided to switch to Openbox just to get that extra free RAM instead of Gnome3. Right now when I startup openbox with a lot of things added to startup etc. I get around 140-150 Mb of ram usage when it's idle...is that normal?

Thanks for your time.

[ratcheer]

I get around 140-150 Mb of ram usage when it's idle...is that normal?

Thanks for your time.

I would say that is a good, low amount of RAM usage. My Arch system uses about 133 MB before I start X. I don't think you should worry about it. Just make sure you are using a swap partition. I would think it should be 2 GB.

Tim