Mike's memory usage is: On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 07:38 -0500, fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Mem: 248088k total, 240544k used, 7544k free, 18188k > buffers > Swap: 524120k total, 104304k used, 419816k free, 59040k > cached > > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > 3362 jmccarty 15 0 110m 43m 18m S 1.3 18.0 8:43.37 > thunderbird-bin > 4159 root 15 0 178m 32m 4904 S 7.0 13.4 992:47.66 X > 5214 jmccarty 16 0 68496 20m 13m S 0.0 8.6 0:01.91 > mozilla-bin > I have learned a lot reading comments on this, so can I add that for my machines (512Mb and 1Gb) Xorg is less than half the size. 2285 root 18 0 74316 18m 7972 R 60.8 3.6 1:20.31 Xorg 10335 murray 15 0 219m 37m 19m S 16.9 7.5 0:49.92 evolution This is for 1600 by 1200, millions of colours, double bffered. Isn't the X usage rather high?