Ubuntu
libreoffice package

  1. Bug #1884850
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 1884850

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Wirawan Purwanto (wirawan0) wrote : Re: Xorg server uses unacceptably large amounts of memory (and keep growing)

Hi Daniel, responding to your comment:

In my years of using Linux desktop (in particular, XFCE), I have never experienced memory explosion caused by Xorg server like what I described in this bug report. Please allow me to be a bit candid here. It seems like the newer versions of desktop software (which could mean one or more of these: Xorg, firefox, Libre Office, XFCE and/or MATE, ...) leads to significant bloat in memory usage. This is to the point that a very capable laptop (with >= 8 GB of RAM) would perform poorly because of memory thrashing today even when our usage pattern is not changed over the years (at least I feel so). I'll back this up below.

I still have a desktop computer running Debian 8 and XFCE. Here are some stats on that running system:

* up time = 31

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