Re: Is my Xserver useing too much memory?
Mike Fedyk said:
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> 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.
highly depends on what your doing. My experience suggests that this
is not abnormal. while at work I used to do a lot of intensive work in
X and it would quickly jump to 100MB usage, then over a few weeks get to
about 250MB at which point I would log out and restart X to free up
resources(it would get noticiably slower until I restarted).
keep in mind that the memory usage shown includes the memory on the video
card. I am not sure if it includes *ALL* memory on the card or only the
memory it is using(I think only memory it is using).
I just checked my desktop here and it is using a rather obscene amount
of memory, X is at 297MB[1]. and Its only been 3 days since I last restarted
it. Haven't done anything too out of the ordinary either..*shrug*
thats what 768MB of ram is for :)
maybe I should turn on a swap partition.
nate
7233 root -9 -10 297M 41M 5900 S < 0.0 5.4 35:30 XFree86
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