[vox-tech] Optimum memory for a Linux workstation?

[David Hummel]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 11:23:54AM -0700, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
> Perhaps I am being naive, but why not use KDEs System Monitor applet
> (or Gnome's equivalent)?

There is also xosview, the traditional X app for this purpose.

Quite lightwieght compared to the gnome tool:

$ ps aux | head -1; ps aux | egrep '(xosview|gnome-system)'
USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
hummel    2687  0.1  0.3  3448 1600 pts/1    S    14:00   0:00 xosview
hummel    2711  8.3  1.7 16528 8756 pts/1    S    14:01   0:03 gnome-system

-David