X memory leak?

Ben Scott dragonhawk at gmail.com
Fri Dec 23 11:30:00 EST 2005


On 12/23/05, Brian Chabot <brian at datasquire.net> wrote:
> Why the heck would X be taking up almost a gig of total memory?

  Memory stats for the X server can be misleading, as the RAM on the
video card gets mapped into the process's virtual memory space (or
something like that).

> ... relatively beefy system with a gig of RAM...

  What does "free -t" tell you?

> ... Using Enlightenment for the desktop and running Mozilla, Konqueror,
> xmms, and a bunch of Eterms ...

  And you're wondering why it's slow?  ;-)

-- Ben



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