Resursside tarbimise hindamine Ubuntu ametlikes väljaannetes

The Register conducted tests on memory and disk usage after installing various desktop editions of the Ubuntu 21.04 distribution in a VirtualBox virtual machine. The tests included Ubuntu with GNOME 42, Kubuntu with KDE 5.24.4, Lubuntu with LXQt 0.17, Ubuntu Budgie with Budgie 10.6.1, Ubuntu MATE with MATE 1.26, and Xubuntu with Xfce 4.16.

The lightest distribution was Lubuntu, which had a memory usage of 357 MB after launching the desktop, and the disk space consumption after installation was 7.3 GB. The highest memory consumption was demonstrated by the main variant Ubuntu with GNOME (710 MB), while Kubuntu had the highest disk space usage (11 GB). In terms of memory usage, Kubuntu showed quite good figures at 584 MB, only surpassed by Lubuntu (357 MB) and Xubuntu (479 MB), but ahead of Ubuntu (710 MB), Ubuntu Budgie (657 MB), and Ubuntu MATE (591 MB).

  Disk used (GiB) Disk free (GiB) Usage (%) RAM used (MiB) RAM free (GiB) RAM shared (MiB) Buff/cache (MiB) Avail (GiB) ISO size (GiB) Ubuntu 9.3 5.1 65 710 2.3 1 762 2.8 3.6 Kubuntu 11 4.2 72 584 2.6 11 556 2.9 3.5 Lubuntu 7.3 2.8 50 357 2.8 7 600 3.2 2.5 Ubuntu Budgie 9.8 4.6 69 657 2.4 5 719 2.9 2.4 Ubuntu MATE 10 4.4 70 591 2.5 9 714 2.9 2.5 Xubuntu 9.4 5 66 479 2.7 1 545 3.1 2.3

For comparison, similar testing of Ubuntu 13.04 editions conducted in 2013 yielded the following results:

Edition RAM Usage 2013 RAM Usage 2022 Change Disk Usage 2013 Disk Usage 2022 Lubuntu 119 MB 357 MB 3 times 2 GB 7.3 GB Xubuntu 165 MB 479 MB 2.9 times 2.5 GB 9.4 GB Ubuntu (Unity) 229 MB — — 2.8 GB — Ubuntu GNOME 236 MB 710 MB 3 times 3.1 GB 9.3 GB Kubuntu 256 MB 584 MB 2.3 times 3.3 GB 11 GB

Allikas: opennet.ru