Re: Linux distro

On 8/2/07, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> A server with a GUI sitting on a login screen is wasting zero
> resources. Some enterprise management tools are in java which require
> a GUI to use so there is very little downside to installing X, so IMO
> a lightweight window manager is appropriate...a full gnome is maybe
> overkill. Obviously, you want to turn of the 3d screen saver :-)
So you don't consider RAM a resource? :)

I just went and rebooted my workstation, here's a top from
just after the reboot, with the box idling on the xdm login prompt.

top - 15:40:35 up 2 min, 1 user, load average: 0.79, 0.60, 0.24
Tasks: 65 total, 1 running, 64 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 1800544k total, 95164k used, 1705380k free, 10408k buffers
Swap: 738856k total, 0k used, 738856k free, 53576k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
4735 root 18 0 52524 7204 4304 S 0.0 0.4 0:00.01 httpd
4820 root 15 0 141m 6648 3140 S 0.0 0.4 0:00.64 X
4739 nobody 16 0 52660 5476 2540 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.00 httpd
4740 nobody 16 0 52660 5476 2540 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.00 httpd
4741 nobody 16 0 52660 5476 2540 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.00 httpd
4742 nobody 20 0 52660 5476 2540 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.00 httpd
4743 nobody 21 0 52660 5476 2540 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.00 httpd
4756 postgres 18 0 35832 3696 3244 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.12 postmaster
4762 root 16 0 4052 2872 1260 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.17 bash
4737 root 18 0 10272 2640 1848 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 smbd
4635 root 15 0 5920 2036 1400 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.03 cupsd
4823 root 15 0 3748 1932 1452 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.01 xdm
4646 root 15 0 6496 1896 920 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 sendmail

Also note that at that stage the X process has had the most
CPU cycles as well (which might be different if I could let it idle
for much longer - but I need to answer this e-Mail :D and gmail
doesn't work with lynx).

> merlin
-- Cheers,
Andrej