Re: XFree86 Memory usage
On Sun, 2002-09-15 at 21:59, Robin wrote:
> Dale Hair wrote:
>
> >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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> funny, I thought KDE3 was the culprit... so I switched back to wmaker,
> the leak is much slower, but still exists... XFree86 doesn't show to
> use 400MB of ram, though, my memory totally disappears.
I don't have kde installed on this machine, but galeon seems to eat up
all available memory and then every app has very slow response.
I have 384MB ram with the same in swap. I can be maxed out in ram and
swap, then close galeon, restart with the same sites loaded and top
shows 240MB used as opposed to 750+MB
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