Ubuntu
lightdm package

  1. Bug #1074279
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 1074279

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Maria Geller (mariageller67-deactivatedaccount) wrote : Re: lightdm uses more physical memory than X

Yes this is what I get as well. I was shocked to see MATE using 230M with nothing running. It was quite a bit less in Precise.

htop shows lightdm using 31M. Switching to slim and lxdm saved memory, but they are not as useful.

Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal
Linux 3.5.0-17-generic i686