Re: How much RAM does ctwm consume?

On Wed, 25 Dec 2019, [email protected] wrote:

> About 3/5 of the way down the page at
> https://l3net.wordpress.com/2013/03/17/a-memory-comparison-of-light-linux-desktops/
> is a graphic comparing the RAM used by various Window Managers and
> Desktop Environments (WMDEs).
>
> Does anyone have any idea how much RAM standard ctwm, sans panel,
> consumes? I'm involved in a discussion of lightweight WMDEs on a
> different mailing list.

I have an ancient command 'myprocswith', defined as:

/bin/ps ux | grep -v myprocswith | grep -v grep | grep $*

I always boot to level 3, then use 'startx' to run X. My .xinitrc file
invokes ctwm after various other things have started. I use 12 workspaces
shown in a 4x3 array by

I don't know whether this answers your question:

the command:

     myprocswith ctwm

produces:
     axs       1617  0.0  0.0 221224  3692 ?        S    Dec08   1:01 ctwm -W

I think that means 221224 Kb virtual and 3692 Kb resident.

It has been running since 9th December because instead of shutting down and
booting I normally hibernate and resume, except for firefox which always
has many current windows and tabs and seriously slows down resume after
hibernate. I have 16 xterms, firefox, thunderbird, and a couple of xpdf
processes. (I usually have many more pdf files open in different
workspaces), as well as a collection of editor processes in xterm windows.

I have the impression that ctwm is more lightweight than any other window
manager I have tried with similar functionality, e.g. openbox.

Aaron
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs