On Wednesday 19 September 2001 03:49 pm, you wrote:
> "Mark D'voo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I x 4.1.0 running the latest nvidia drivers for my geforce 3. I dont'
> > know if it was the upgrade from 8.0 to 8.1 beta 3 or the update up the
> > nvidia drivers( i upated them both the same day). Why does X take up on
> > average 250megs of my 512 megs of ram? isn't this a little excessive??
>
> beware of X server memory figures:
>
> root@leia:~>cat /proc/`pidof X`/status | grep Vm
> VmSize: 52064 kB
> VmLck: 0 kB
> VmRSS: 360 kB
> VmData: 6196 kB
> VmStk: 192 kB
> VmExe: 1440 kB
> VmLib: 1812 kB
here's what i get when i do a: cat /proc/`pidof X`/status | grep Vm
VmSize: 1286396 kB
VmLck: 0 kB
VmRSS: 341592 kB
VmData: 1060964 kB
VmStk: 280 kB
VmExe: 1440 kB
VmLib: 1588 kB
mark
>
> aka it only uses 360KB of memory. The 6MB Data must be swapped out.
