Lubuntu 12.10 uses 30% more RAM than 12.04
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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lubuntu-meta (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Lubuntu 12.10 uses a lot more RAM than 12.04.
The 12.10 ISO in VirtualBox uses 127 MB, which is less than 131 MB for 12.04. However, once installed 12.10 run at 110 MB compared to about 85 MB for 12.04 (in both fresh installs and upgrades). That is 25 MB more unaccounted for. The processes in Lxtask seem to be normal. Please explain...
I am wondering if you forgot to turn off some services or if something should not be running. There is also a few significant bugs (already reported): mounting partitions now require a password in PCManFM (very unpleasant for anyone using a data partition) and PCManFM's Right-Click>Paste not working.
Congratuations for the great new icon theme!
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: lubuntu-desktop 0.45
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Oct 20 09:24:18 2012
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release i386 (20121017.1)
SourcePackage: lubuntu-meta
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
If you have both system available, you can try to compare them and find which application take more memory, or which service is in 12.10 and not 12.04. For this, don't forget to enable all the process in lxtask (go to View => check all the checkboxes).
As far as I know, we didn't add new services that take that much RAM. So, it may be one specific process which need more memory in 12.10.