On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Mark Vojkovich wrote: > On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Bernd Kappler wrote: > > I recently installed XFree86 Version 4.1.0.1 on my Linux box (Debian > > GNU/Linux 3.0 woody). However, I observed that XFree allocates very much > > memory, but I can not figure out why. The result of top looks like > > PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND > > 325 root 7 -10 1136M 667M 740 S < 0.3 44.3 18:41 XFree86 > While top doesn't reflect actual memory usage, it only > reflects virtual usage (ie. the same memory mapped 10 times > gets counted 10 times), it does seem a little odd that you have > that much memory being reported. Is this at startup or after > running for a while? Is the disk swapping? It could be a > resource leak in a client (a big leak).
This Perl script was posted here a while back; I stuck a copy on the web: http://www.iain.thomas.dial.pipex.com/analyse-x.pl Get&run that; it'll confirm the amount of Real Memory X is using... -- Regards, [EMAIL PROTECTED] My website: http://www.iain.thomas.dial.pipex.com/ XMMS now playing: Dire Straits - Lady Writer _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
