On Thursday 16 June 2005 21:42, Petr Fischer wrote: > My graphics card is old (dusty) NVidia GeForce2 MX 400 (64MB). > But 628MB of virtual memory consumed by X server? This is realy big > number - my harddrive is stressed. > > pf > > Markku Kolkka pÃÅe v PÃ 17. 06. 2005 v 00:38 +0300: > > Petr Fischer kirjoitti viestissÃÃn (lÃhetysaika perjantai, 17. > > > > kesÃkuuta 2005 00:15): > > > Process: /usr/X11R6/bin/X > > > Memory: 628MB > > > VM size: 628MB > > > Resident memory: 518MB > > > RSS memory: 518MB > > > > > > Why is memory consuption of X server so big? > > > > How much video memory does your display card have? X maps the > > video RAM to its memory space, which increases the VM size but > > doesn't actually consume main RAM. > > > > -- > > Markku Kolkka > > markku.kolkka@xxxxxx I deal a lot with photo sites, often containing more than a thousand large (25MB+) images... (no not porn, get your mind out of the gutter) Anyway, my X server often grows to about 1.5GB and I end up restarting X. There is a nice program out there called xrestop (http://freshmeat.net/projects/xrestop/) that can show you where the memory might go... Peter.
