On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 12:41:15AM -0700, Forrest English wrote:
> i've got blackbox 0.61 running on both my brothers machine, and my own. and we
> were running ktop to take a look at how much memory our themes were sucking up,
> x for me was using 63 megs, and his at 32.
>
> this just plain confused me, so i switched it to the same theme he was using.
> and well, it changed from 63 to 57. which somehow just doesn't make sense to
> me. we were running exactly the same applications for our little comparisons.
>
> my system:
> k6-3 400
> asus p5a
> 64 megs pc100
> voodoo banshee pci
> mandrake (2.2.17-0.16) (i also had this much memory usage with .15-4, and
> 16-9)
>
> brothers system:
> p2 350
> (i forget the motherboard)
> 128 megs pc100
> tnt2 m64 16meg agp
> mandrake 7.1, stock everything (except blackbox) (2.2.15-4)
>
> any idea's as to why this would be?
>
Different video cards, X servers, available memory and possibly
display depths. Was the memory size you reported the SIZE or the
RSS? I wouldn't worry to much about SIZEs. The local X server on
my new box reports 55M SIZE, but only 5-6M RSS.
Basically, I suspect the different servers/cards are using different
optimizations to speed performance (if you run X manually, take a
look at the info the X server spits out on startup), which involves
grabbing some extra memory which may or may not actually get used.
Jeff Raven
