>> On Mon, 22 Apr 1996 16:41:14 -0400,
>> Justin L Gaither(jg) wrote:
jg> I tested fvwm2 .42 with xpm, xpm titlebuttons, and xpm titlebar
jg> supported on solaris2.5
jg> WM SZ RSS
jg> fvwm2 2296 1976
jg> pager 1904 1584
jg> ------------------
jg> total 4200 3560
jg> olvwm 4688 3712
last pid: 21396; load averages: 1.34, 1.50, 1.61 14:56:01
291 processes: 274 sleeping, 12 zombie, 5 on cpu
Cpu states: 59.5% idle, 32.5% user, 7.2% kernel, 0.9% iowait, 0.0% swap
Memory: 214M real, 59M free, 225M swap, 453M free swap
PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
21396 mdb -15 0 1980K 1136K cpu 0:05 5.53% 19.52% top
14424 mdb 34 0 2296K 852K sleep 0:18 0.00% 0.00% fvwm-2.0.42
14434 mdb 34 0 2064K 676K sleep 0:03 0.00% 0.00% FvwmPager
16556 mdb 24 0 1648K 928K sleep 0:02 0.00% 0.00% zsh-2.6b13h13
14442 mdb 18 16 3336K 896K sleep 0:01 0.00% 0.00% xbuffy
14432 mdb 34 0 2084K 700K sleep 0:01 0.00% 0.00% FvwmButtons
14440 mdb 34 0 1576K 480K sleep 0:01 0.00% 0.00% rclock
16554 mdb 34 0 2256K 1088K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% rxvt-2.15
14400 mdb 34 0 664K 296K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% .xsession
The resident size of fvwm2, which I think is the more important, is
reasonably small (smaller than zsh and rxvt at least).
If you prefer ucb ps format:
$ psgrep fvwm
USER PID CP SZ RSS TT S START TIME COMMAND
mdb 14432 80 521 175 ? S 12:28:33 0:01 FvwmButtons
mdb 14424180 574 213 ? S 12:28:28 0:19 fvwm -display hpx06:0
mdb 14434 80 516 169 ? S 12:28:33 0:03 FvwmPager
But the bad news is that many people have HP Aptrex Xterminals here,
which have downloadable (to the Xterm) mwm code that is smaller than
fvwm in the final analysis:
$ psgrep mwm
jtb 16303 80 317 115 ? S 13:18:32 0:00 xt.mwm wmpid=16302
I know it's an unfair comparison (mwm takes up X terminal memory in
addition to the host shown here), but as far as the host is concerned
mwm is lighter, even smaller than FvwmPager. I can't believe I just
typed that ;-(. I just hope the sysadmins aren't monitoring this in
this way. At least I can justify it based on the fact fvwm is the only
virtual window manager currently available here (mwm-2 is still not an
option).
Anyway, just some more numbers/thoughts to chew on in this thread, and
to point out that if Xterminals are in the picture, the fvwm advantage
may not be as clear-cut as we'd hoped.
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Received on Mon Apr 22 1996 - 16:10:31 BST