User Feedback :: Memory usage/performance
Hello all. I have been testing/using various distros and must say I have been very intrigued by DSL and this forum. I am duel booting DSL and Kubunto on a laptop and triple booting DSL, Kubunto and Win2000 on a desktop while playing games on an old 166 32m ram DSL box. My comment is this. DSL runs in about 12-14 megs ram while Kubunto runs in 240 to 256 megs ram. I have Debian running on a laptop with 60-75 megs ram. I do mean ram usage not memory on machine. I have enough ram on these where swap doesn't seem to be an issue. Why such a swing in memory usage? DSL seems to do everything that the other distros do. Kubunto is the hog running 72+ processes comparied to DSL's 22. Are you getting anything out of these other 50 or processes? This is only one man's oppion but running Kubunto on my laptop with 256 meg ram is slower and prone to problems. The same machine with DSL on it is a rocket ship. Just a comment. Have an acceptable day. Craig 
Update. I think I am reading the Kubunto memory reading wrong. I think it is using 120 m for operating, a small buffer memory and a cached memory of about 100 m. Not sure how any of this works but is better than I first thought. DSL still blows it away hands down. Craig 
DSL starts less daemons at startup, programs have been minimized and so on.
Kubuntu, like Ubuntu, is a piece of trash. Debian is a more complicated story.
DSL uses busybox init, not the standard one, so it's virtually impossible to start all that junk that other distros kick at boot time.
Thanks. I kind of figured it something like that. 
I had Ubunto installed on my 266 laptop and it was very slow. DSL is fast and using JWM I start with around 11M of ram used. I recently decided to wipe everything out and install a dual boot with win98 (I had it on before but haven't used it in a while) so I could do testing and stuff while repairing other systems when I needed. Win98 causes my fan to kick in way more than DSL (which usually happens when the CPU is being over taxed) so it is more resource intense by far. On this 266 laptop DSL has plenty of power and I can do pretty much anything I want.
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