I tried this with the February 5, 2000 alpha and did not get the same results.
Each new window caused an increase of 1M in X. Netscape caused an increase of
about 4M and Eterm caused an increase of about 2-3M.
I have not noticed X growing by leaps and bounds at all though. The largest it
grew to was 24M (with everything plus Netscape).
Isn't there a new pixmap caching feature that takes more memory? I remember
there was a setting that was causing problems that was also supposed to be
fixed.
On Fri, 12 May 2000, David Bonner wrote:
> Just to add some more data to chew on, I decided to watch my X
> server as I started up this morning. After starting X with bb
> and bbkeys, then bringing up an xterm and running top, it was
> up to 26MB RSS. Launching another xterm brought it up to 31MB
> RSS. After that I could bring up xterms to my heart's desire
> without affecting X's memory use.
>
> Swapping between desktops didn't have any effect, but when I
> ran netscape it jumped to 41MB, 45MB with messenger.
>
> As a comparison, I tried the same thing with wmaker. It started
> at 19MB after my first xterm, and jumped to 20 with netscape, 21
> with messenger.
>
> This is a slack 7.1beta system with xfree 3.3.6.
>
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