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Re: XFree86 has pituitary problem?



On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 01:33:03PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:

> Take a look at the second to last last question in the FAQ at
> /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz. Interesting stuff like this:
> 
>   It is not at all uncommon for a modern 64Mb video card, to have X's memory
>   usage appear to be 100Mb or more, when in reality, 64Mb of that is video RAM,
>   and 16-32Mb possibly mmapped registers.

Interesting but not relevant.  As already posted, restarting X shrank it to
under 15 MB.  It's now 32.  And I don't have a video card that modern.
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Carl Fink             carl@fink.to
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