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Re: X windows high memory usage




On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Uri Shohet wrote:

> According to top, my X windows uses 71 to 80 MB of memory. How can this be?
> On my machine in the office it uses 14-18 MB maximum - same RedHat 7.1, same
> kernel 2.4.5-10 and XFree86-4.1.0-0.0.1 from Rawhide, same glibc-2.2.3-10.

The reported memory usage of X includes the mappings of the framebuffer
and the register aperture, so it is very likely that 64 MB of the
reported size is actually not taked out of you RAM. 

-- 
Matan Ziv-Av.                         matan@svgalib.org



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