X memory reports from top and other utilities may be
erroneous due to the mapping of the video card memory.
Also a lot of the time meory in Linux don't go unused,
and insted goes into shared meory, buffers, etc.
--- Scott Balmos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Good evening everyone,
>
> While this may seem a rather odd question... It
> seems alarming to me that my
> system (running 7.1 Beta 2) loves to idle around 185
> megs when everything's
> all and done loaded up. That's with MySQL, Apache,
> blah blah blah... loaded,
> and X alone chewing 60 megs.
>
> Does this seem even *REMOTELY* possible? I imagine
> it might, with all the
> binaries probably having debugging symbols in them.
>
> On a tangent to that question, what part of the
> filesystem is it *NOT* safe
> to use "strip" on? If it is the debugging symbols
> that are the problem, then
> I'd might as well strip them out save for KDE 2. :)
>
> Thanks for the info!
>
> --Scott Balmos ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
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