Overhead in 14.04 Comparing Xubuntu and Lubuntu

[Aere Greenway]

On 05/05/2014 11:24 AM, Israel wrote:
> Oddly enough I found Lubuntu and Xubuntu to be about the same on a
> machine with that much memory.  The difference shows on machines with
>> >
Israel:

The machines I observed this major disparity (between Xubuntu and 
Lubuntu) on, don't have any sort of graphics acceleration.  I will 
install xcompmgr, and report my results.

In my testing where I focused on this issue, the amount of RAM was not 
an issue (less than 1/3 of it was used the entire time).

I haven't yet tried Lubuntu 14.04 on the 1.7 Ghz machine (which has a 
NVIDIA card).  I may install Lubuntu 14.04 in place of Ubuntu on that 
machine, so I can compare performance compared to UbuntuStudio with 
graphics acceleration.

I have Ubuntu/Unity 14.04 installed on a Vaio laptop, having a faster 
processor, as well as 2GB RAM, and it seems okay - definitely better 
than the Vista partition on the same machine.

The problem I have with Ubuntu on that machine, is that it doesn't use 
the entire screen (it uses a less-wide subset of it), and I don't know 
how to fix that problem.  It is only used for testing, however, so I am 
less motivated to solve it.

-- 
Sincerely,
Aere