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Date:      11 Nov 2002 16:36:11 -0500
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: XFree86 memory usage
Message-ID:  <44bs4vyek4.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021111102049.X4010-100000@daemon.velosystems.net>
References:  <20021111102049.X4010-100000@daemon.velosystems.net>

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Steve Wingate <steve@velosystems.net> writes:

> I'm trying to figure out why X11 is using so much memory on my
> workstation. Here is the output from 'top':
> 
>   PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE    RES STATE  C   TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
>   236 steve      2   0   215M   210M select 1 435:16  0.05%  0.05% XFree86
> 
> 215MB seems like alot to me. OTOH, this is a dual 1.8Ghz Xeon box with 1GB
> RAM so I'm not losing any sleep over it. However I am curious to know if
> this is normal or indicative of some memory leaks in applications.
> My current environment is Gnome2, although the number doesn't decrease
> drastically with Windowomaker either.

Most of that memory is probably your video card being mapped in, not
RAM usage.

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