This laptop is basically used for web browsing with only Thunderbird and Firefox running on it 99% of the time.

I did install and run xrestop which of course shows firefox consuming most of the memory:

xrestop - Display: localhost:0
          Monitoring 31 clients. XErrors: 6
          Pixmaps:  332424K total, Other:      98K total, All:  332523K total

res-base Wins  GCs Fnts Pxms Misc   Pxm mem  Other   Total   PID Identifier
3200000   187   60    1 2632   49   308625K      7K 308633K   ?   Gregory Gulik
3600000   182   60    1  669   93    19562K      8K  19571K   ?   Inbox for greg
2e00000    24   43    0    3   25      768K      2K    770K  3191 WindowNavigati
0e00000    15   32    2    2  805      384K     21K    405K  3186 metacity
1a00000    14   33    1    4   28      393K      2K    396K   ?   [EMAIL PROTECTED]


I don't know why this particular laptop is suffering so much but upon review my other laptops and desktops also have huge Xorg processes.

I know this laptop wasn't suffering from this problem before recently so I'm wondering what changed.  My other desktops and laptops are also fully up2date so I can't easily confirm this theory.


Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
The X server is often a container for pixmaps from other applications.
If you run xrestop it could help to diagnose if it is truly the X server
or one of the applications on the system which is consuming the memory.

For instance here's some output (modified to fit the screen) of xrestop:

          Monitoring 33 clients. XErrors: 0
          Pixmaps:   52397K total, Other:     133K total, All:   52531K
total

Fnts Pxms Misc   Pxm mem  Other   Total   PID Identifier
1  177   34    29162K      6K  29169K   ?   Damn Small Lin1800000
1  13  113    10405K      5K  10411K   ?   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
0   0    0     4800K      0B   4800K   ?   <unknown>

In this case, 40MB on my XServer is being consumed by firefox and
gnome-terminal (The first two entries).

(xrestop is available in Fedora Core.  If you don't have it installed,
yum install xrestop should install it for you.)
-Toshio
  

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