Carl Fink wrote: > On my Woody system, Xfree86 is now taking 343 MB (according to top). Isn't > that a bit much? > > Unsurprisingly, I'm getting a lot of swapping, since that only leaves 160 or > so MB for everything else. Take a look at the second to last last question in the FAQ at /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz. Interesting stuff like this: It is not at all uncommon for a modern 64Mb video card, to have X's memory usage appear to be 100Mb or more, when in reality, 64Mb of that is video RAM, and 16-32Mb possibly mmapped registers. -- see shy jo
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