Ankit Jain wrote:
hi
well i am using linux 9.0 kernel 2.4 ver. 128 Mb RAM
i have seen not only on this sytem but the other one having 512 Mb RAM the most of the memory is lost or taken by graphics or xserver. on my system around 90% is occupied by the xsever and on the sys with 512 Mb RAM around 70% is occupied. how to reduce this load. i oculd not get any article or stuff relate to this . if we can do something in kernel or in some way reduce this load while working in GUI envt
thanks
Ankit
Could you please post your ps -Al, /proc/meminfo, and lspci output? I know Red Hat has a lot of standard daemons (PCMCIA, ISDN, etc) that are started by default - have you used chkconfig or redhat-config-services to shut off unneded services?
The kernel also uses a lot of free memory for I/O caching - even my P4 w/ 1GB RAMBUS shows 90% memory consumption in /proc/meminfo. Caching is a low-priority memory allocation - when the system needs memory for active processes, it should give the memory to the process.
BTW, unless you are using a framebuffer kernel-level driver, X is handled almost exclusively in userland. On SPARC32 (for example) framebuffers are pretty much the only way to get X working, but mostly, XFree86 and the X.org server that comes with FC2 use mostly user-space drivers.
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