Kitchen items question

[ElAguila]

I am getting ready to make a new rom for myself. I have a WM shell that I want to run but it like memory. I want to make a rom that leaves the smallest footprint in ram. I was wondering if there was a list somewhere of which items in the kitchen will effect ram. I know how to tell the amount of rom that will be used by storage but I don't know which items WM will load when it starts. I am assuming that battery meters, keyboard skins, comm manager, phone, input panels, today themes and plugins(if activated), touch flo, and voice control. Is there anything else that will load with WM thus decreasing the amount of free RAM?

[btonetbone]

If that is your main concern, the best thing you can do is to avoid OEMs through the kitchen. Find the cabs and install them one by one; take note of what each program does to your available RAM.
This will also give you the ability to upgrade programs as new versions come out without needing to recook.

[ElAguila]

So just cook a basic rom with no oem and flash the phone and then install as needed from there?

[btonetbone]

I'd keep the OEMs to a minimum, especially for programs. They can be useful to put in some registry tweaks or any other fixes, but that's all I'd use them for.
Before you flash, though, search for cabs for every program you use. Anything you can't find, stick with an OEM.

[ElAguila]

Thanks for the info.