Re: XFree86 Memory usage
On Sun, 2002-09-15 at 19:00, Leo Spalteholz wrote:
> I've noticed recently that if I keep my computer up for a while
> (2 days or so) the swap fills up until its all used (~360MB).
> top shows that XFree86 is using 441MB. Now I realize that 64MB
> of that would be my video ram but 377MB is still huge.
> I know that linux tries to use all available ram but isn't that
> limited to physical ram?
>
> Or does XFree86 have a major memory leak somewhere? I am running
> testing with no 3rd party packages installed.
I've noticed the same thing using testing. Galeon seems to be the
culprit on my machine.
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