On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 11:14 -0500, Gregory Gulik wrote:
> 
> I'm using the nv driver on my laptop with FC5.  Recently (last couple
> weeks) I noticed that X is REALLY slow at times and it appears to be
> due to /usr/bin/Xorg consuming vast amounts of memory causing the
> machine to swap.  I have 512M of RAM so it should be adequate.
> 
>   PID TTY      STAT   TIME  MAJFL   TRS   DRS   RSS %MEM COMMAND
> 3046 tty7     Rs+   17:46  37411  1739 286624 224428
> 28.9 /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -aud
> it 0 -auth /var/gdm/:0.Xauth vt7
> 
> 
> Even after a reboot it doesn't take long for memory usage to go back
> up to this.  I don't use this laptop often, maybe only every other
> day, but I never noticed this when I first upgraded to FC5, only in
> the last 2 weeks or so.
> 
> Has anyone else seen this problem?

No, not recently.  But I've seen similar problems in the past.  It may
not be a problem with X, but a problem with cached pixmaps for one of
the X clients.  Try using a program called "xrestop".  Also try closing
all programs you are running one at a time and watch the memory usage.
-- 
Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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