[ale] X memory consumption

Michael D. Hirsch mhirsch at nubridges.com
Wed Apr 23 12:24:45 EDT 2003


On Wednesday 23 April 2003 08:44 am, John Wells wrote:
> Trying to track down memory hoarders on my machine.  X is currently
> using 112M physical ram and 83M swap...(RH9, Gnome)
>
> Does this size represent *all* applications running under X, or just X
> itself?  Does this seem a little big to anyone else?

This should just represent the X server, but that can include a lot of 
images cached in the server.

It does seem big, but not huge for X.  I tend to keep my server up and have 
many windows on multiple desktop.  currently it is 195M with 95M resident.

Michael
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