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brday

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Devuan more JWM

Testing the Devuan operating system plus JWM on real hardware 160 MiB

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Re: Devuan more JWM

Very nice! Love the low ram usage, but are you measuring that the old-school way or the legacy way (excluding buffers and cache)?

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brday

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Re: Devuan more JWM

This screenshot was taken in the traditional way without excluding anything.  To achieve these results, the installation is done cleanly from the base system.

rations

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Registered: 2025-11-06

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Re: Devuan more JWM

@brday I install from the base system and can't get anywhere near 160 MiB. Must be all the bloat I added.

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Re: Devuan more JWM

mmh weird, with very basic install + dwm (which I think is one of the lightest wm), I can't go above 350 mib at boot. Don't you use dbus not elogind ?

rations

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Re: Devuan more JWM

Doesn't the base system include both by default?

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Re: Devuan more JWM

It does but who know...
The fact the computer has "only" 6Gib RAM is a factor too, more ram you have, more it consums