I noticed that xconsole eats up a lot of ram: PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 4725 root 14 -10 105M 13M 11244 S < 0.0 11.2 2208m XFree86 10873 erik 10 0 18224 11M 5800 S 0.0 9.4 0:27 communicator-sm 4753 root 9 0 8564 4112 3804 S 0.0 3.2 0:17 xconsole there are several bugs filed (and merged) but not resolved (few years old!). Is there any workaround? Any similar program that would work correctly (not eating up RAM)? TIA erik