On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, alann wrote:
> Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
> >
> > Alwyn Schoeman wrote:
> > >
> > > While we're on the subject, I've got a Riva TNT2 chipset card from Gigabyte
> > > ... its got 32 Mb. The Xserver I use is SVGA since I choose the Diamond
> > > TNT2 setting in Xconfigurator...
> > >
> > > My X suddenly uses between 44 and 48 Mb of RAM???????
> >
> > This makes sense in a weird way:
> > I use a card with the TNT chipset with half the memory (16MB) and my X
> > now chomps 24 Megs off my RAM. :(
> > What happens if there is a TNT-card with 128MB ?
> > Will X then use 180 MB RAM?
> >
> > wobo
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> I have the same thing with my voodoo banshee.. I'm still trying to figure out if
>this is
> OK or I have a problem.
> X ( with KDE ) uses 59M as reported by top and or Xosview. WIth gnome/e I've seen
>it as
> high as 89 M..
> Everything runs fine, but it just seems odd.
>
> Alan
If everything runs fine, and you don't hear it thrashing around swaping
don't worry about it. top isn't really ment for this type of profileing..
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