On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 03:18:12PM +0800, Ariz Jacinto wrote: > have u tried [EMAIL PROTECTED] (i dunno if it still exist) =) > > the OS should only use/report the remaining 224MB as allocated by the BIOS > & VRAM shouldn't handle system processes aside from holding texture info, > etc., right? > > have you tried using X in minimum (no wm, excess modules...) > & then revaluated its memory usage?
Thanks for the tip. I started 'X' which is nothing but the X server, and got: PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND 23837 root 11 0 41352 8072 1872 S 0.0 3.6 0:01 0 X SIZE = RSS + 32M which is just right for 32M VRAM, no? Upon GNOME startup: PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND 24053 root 19 0 44032 10M 2004 S 3.3 4.8 0:01 0 X Ten minutes later: PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND 24053 root 13 0 60896 26M 2036 R 2.7 12.3 0:32 0 X What consumes 'X' memory anyway? I suspect this has got something to do with Eclipse (Java development tool) and its SWT toolkit... -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
