>> >> X11 4.2.0 hw accelerated (started with the automatic "init 5" at boot) takes 
>45MB of RAM on a single 
process
>> >> (according to top's report), plus 4MB of X Font server.
>...
>> >More or less. X is memory hungry. It will probably release some memory
>> >when/if your system gets low on memory.
>...
>> Nope. It keeps 45 MB with any desktop that takes < 4MB (free RAM: about 8MB) and it 
>takes 45MB with KDE (4MB 
>> swap, free RAM 0)!
>
>You lost me here, "with any desktop that takes < 4MB" ? 

IceWM. Great stuff!

> Well anyway: Ive have 256MByte, and only 4MByte free. Thats why you have swab space
>(34MByte used just now). Linux keeps (unused) buffers in memory until it
>_must_ free them.

Thanks now i get it.



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