Is my Xserver useing too much memory?

[Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>]

Hi,

About a year ago I had a machine (since dismantled) that would reliably have
an Xserver (XF4.x) consume all available memory and cause the system to be
in an OOM state.

Now in another machine I have a [1]Xserver using a lot of memory again.
Earlier today, the SIZE of the process was about 64MB, and now it's up to
80MB.  Is this normal?  My system has been up for 7 days.

Mike

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  PID USER     PRI  NI PAGEIN  SIZE SWAP  RSS SHARE   D LC %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
  709 root      15 -10  28607 81876  63M  16M  8520  3K  0  8.2 13.1 384:33 XFree86