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...

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