Comment 144 for bug 1572801

2 Systems running both 64bit systems one has 1gig ram installed (old computer) with 14.04.5 LTS 32bit ram after boot up is 328mb Tried Mint 18.1 Mate on same system Ram after bootup 600 ish.
2nd system with 2gig Ram ubuntu 16.04 LTS boots up with 867mb Ram.

Would expect newer versions of OS to consume a bit more RAM but well over double seems very excessive. Installing 16.04 on the 1gig system in fallback metacity mode was totally unworkable so went back to 14.04 lts pending getting more ram for that machine but still, double the RAM was unexpected.