Re: strange X behavior
On Thursday 27 September 2001 17:01, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote:
> Hi,
> I've noticed a strange X server behavior regarding to Memory
> utilization. Look at this "ps" output:
>
> USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
> ....
> root 20454 0.0 99.9 204284 4294964944 ? S<L Sep26 1:36
> /usr/X11R6/bin/X root 23460 0.0 2.2 13172 5828 ? S Sep26
> 0:00 -:0 ....
>
> Top gives the same impression:
> ---------------------------------------
> 11:50:52 up 2 days, 20:24, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.04
> 56 processes: 54 sleeping, 1 running, 1 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states: 0.3% user, 0.5% system, 0.0% nice, 99.2% idle
> Mem: 256044K total, 185564K used, 70480K free, 756K buffers
> Swap: 128484K total, 10148K used, 118336K free, 34088K cached
>
> PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
> 20454 root 8 -10 195M -2M 1788 S < 0.2 99.9 1:36 XFree86
> -----------------------------------------
>
> Any ideas on why this is happening and if I should worry about
> it? I'm running woody, with the following additional info:
>
> Package: xfree86-common Version: 4.1.0-5
> Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.1.0-5
> Package: nvidia-glx Version: 1.0.1512-2
> Package: nvidia-kernel-2.4.10 Version: 1.0.1512-1
>
> kernel 2.4.10, icewm, kdm, etc.. on a single PIII machine, 256MB
>
> ~$ cat /proc/nv/card0
> ----- Driver Info -----
> NVRM Version: 1.0-1512
> ------ Card Info ------
> Model: RIVA TNT2 (M64)
> IRQ: 11
> Video BIOS: 02.05.11.12
> ------ AGP Info -------
> AGP status: Enabled
> ...
> -------------------------------------------------
>
>
> []s,
> Mario O.de Menezes "Many are the plans in a man's heart, but
> IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails"
> http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21
If i'm not totally wrong, this bogus information can be caused because top
and ps include the 32MB of memory that exists on the TNT 2 card.
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