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Falcata

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From: Michiana

Registered: 2008-01-23

Posts: 501

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Is X Hogging Memory?

Is it normal for X to use a very large amount of memory?  According to the readout from the top command, it is using up about 827 megabytes of virtual memory.

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dyscoria

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Registered: 2008-01-10

Posts: 1,007

Re: Is X Hogging Memory?

Yep, 889 on my system. Virtual memory use shouldn't really affect anything though. The important value is RES (physical memory).

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briest

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From: Katowice, PL

Registered: 2006-05-04

Posts: 468

Re: Is X Hogging Memory?

Xserver's 'VIRT' includes your graphics card RAM, afair - but you would not use it for anything useful, anyway... In addition, X holds in memory a lot of things for its clients -- try xrestop to see, which of them is the most resource hungry (I'd bet for Firefox )

Falcata

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From: Michiana

Registered: 2008-01-23

Posts: 501

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Re: Is X Hogging Memory?

Actually, it seems that the KDE Desktop is the culprit!  Since xrestop wouldn't let me copy and paste the output, here's a screen capture of it:

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