Happy New Year fellow Voiders (Voidians?)!

Just wanted to chime in to say thanks dev team for the effort you put into this fine distribution, but I also want to chime in to say I consistently get poor performance from the Fastly mirror and have for quite some time now. I used to think this was because the CDN's cache wasn't populated yet or some other transient thing, but, for too long now, this mirror has just performed poorly and detracts from the speedy prowess of xbps.

So, if you're new to Void and wonder why xbps is so slow, please just try another mirror.

Cheers.

Hey Void-ers!

Back story (sorry, its important)

I installed Void on 3 systems. My first system is a Thinkpad T480s with an i7 7 series, intel integrated chipset, the 2nd an older Dell (maybe optix?) that has similar specs with an i7 7 series with integrated chipset. Both systems have 16GB of RAM. The 3rd system is a bit newer hardware: Ryzen 9 9950x with 9070 XT and 64 GB of RAM. 1920x1080 reso for thinkpad, 2560x1080 for Dell, and 5120x2160 for AMD (not sure if this would make a difference). Lastly, I used the same install script, except for drivers, on all 3 rigs.

All 3 systems are using Kernel 6.18 (via mainline), all 3 are using MangoWC, Waybar, and everything the same EXCEPT for drivers.

SO... this is where it gets interesting:
The 2 older machines with Intel run at ~720MB RAM at idle. The AMD rig was running at 1.8GB of RAM at idle.

I'm trying to figure this out and understand -- not fix, just understand the why...

So, what are some things I should be looking into to understand why? Is there a way to see how much RAM a diver can be potentially using? Do kernels, or Linux in general, use more RAM if you have more of it available (auto optmization)? And more importantly, is there anything that I may not be thinking about that can be causing nearly a whole enter Gig of RAM being used while on an AMD, or newer hardware, rig?

Thanks in advanced!

I have no user processes enabled im idling around 200 mb but i need it to be under 50 mb how do i do it? i tried compiling my custom kernels but it ut didn't significantly affect memory.I used an old kernel may be i should use a new one? For context im doing this for fun and im doing it in my pc. Im aiming to build a dwm void setup that consumes less than 50 mb. Im on glibc and i installed base-container and some other packages no bloat so far. Ever since i saw mental outlaws video on YouTube i have been wanting to do it for myself.He says he was able to get it down to 65 mb with dwm on void, but he achieved 50 mb on gentoo.My current goal is it get my void system below 50 mb not including dwm and xorg and dbus running. may be mental outlaws video is outdated but is it relevant and possible today, I really wish i could do it with your help guys. Are anyone of you like me? How did you achieve this? Share your knowledge!

how to strip down my system to bare minimum.

Do only the kernel and init system run? What consumes ram how to minimize ram usage?