Re: CPU and Memory usage of XFree86

[Nirmal Govind <nirmalg@psu.edu>]

Michel Dänzer wrote:

> X server memory consumption is a FAQ and has recently been discussed
> here, but the X server should normally never hog the CPU (and it doesn't
> here) unless there are clients flooding it with requests. If there are
> no suspect clients, does the CPU hogging prevail over an X server
> restart? Does it feel responsive?
When I startx after a reboot for instance, XFree86 takes up around 3-4% 
of my 640MB memory.. and it's cpu usage varies from 0.7% to 15%... in 
addition, kdeinit seems to take around 3% of memory.. so yes, it does 
feel responsive but right after X is started, around 160MB of memory is 
already used up, w/ nothing but a shell terminal open... is this normal?

Thanks,
nirmal