Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 20:59, Wayne Gemmell wrote:
> PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
> 311 root 18 0 149M 148M 696 S 0.9 59.4 5:08 cupsd
> 1870 wayne 10 0 40260 38M 30272 S 0.0 15.5 0:04 soffice.bin
> 1916 wayne 9 0 40260 38M 30272 S 0.0 15.5 0:00 soffice.bin
> 1917 wayne 9 0 40260 38M 30272 S 0.0 15.5 0:00 soffice.bin
> 1918 wayne 9 0 40260 38M 30272 S 0.0 15.5 0:00 soffice.bin
> 1919 wayne 9 0 40260 38M 30272 S 0.0 15.5 0:00 soffice.bin
> 1924 wayne 9 0 40260 38M 30272 S 0.0 15.5 0:00 soffice.bin
> 1926 wayne 9 0 40260 38M 30272 S 0.0 15.5 0:00 soffice.bin
> 1927 wayne 9 0 40260 38M 30272 S 0.0 15.5 0:00 soffice.bin
> [...]
>
> Thats almost all my memory gone. I'm thinking of downloading koffice just
> to do day to day things because if I tr load any other programs the system
> becomes unbearable!
This doesn't look as if soffice.bin (StarOffice?) was the culprit, it's rather
a problem with CUPS (close to 60% memory used by this process alone). Are you
trying to print some color pictures on an inkjet printer? That's a pretty
memory consuming task since the picture would be rasterized by the CPU and
then sent to the printer in small chunks. With those high-res color printers,
there's a whole lot of small pixels to be stored.
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