Huge Memory Usage in X

[Hesham Hassan <hesham@bestweb.net>]

Hi,
  I'm not sure if this is X related or not, however this seems to affect only 
X applications (so nothing on the console is out of the ordinary).  I noticed 
the problems about one week ago after doing a standard upgrad (apt-get 
dist-upgrade), I unfortunately didn't pay attention to what packages were 
updated, but X was one of them.  Now, all apps take a huge amount of time to 
load up, and a huge amount of memory.  Most apps will take a minimum of 100 
megs just to start up.  KDE now takes up over 500 megs, and takes five 
minutes to start up.  This is probably a stupid question, but could this be 
related to the gcc-3.2 transition?  If not, what could be causing it?  I have 
since downgraded from Branden's experimental packages that just went up a few 
days ago, and reinstalled a different version of KDE, but to no avail... My 
system is a 2.5GHz P4 with the NVidia Drivers (I have tried the X ones as 
well as the binaries), on the 2.5.59 kernel (I have tried on the standard 
Debian one (2.4.18 or 19), as well as 2.5.54), Memory is 512 ram and about 
700 swap... I think this about covers it... I also tried using a minimum 
number of modules in my X config file, disabling Framebuffer use, and 
commented out the DRI lines...  If any more info is needed from me just let 
me know, and thanks in advance for any help offered.

Cordially,
Hesham Hassan