From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 13 2: 6:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22C75150A1 for ; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 02:06:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA17979 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 11:06:17 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 11:06:17 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199912131006.LAA17979@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2questions Organization: Administration TU Clausthal Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alfred Perlstein wrote in list.freebsd-questions: > [...] > > On the other hand using FreeBSD 3.3 on another box (Compaq Desktop, AMD > > K6-333, 80MBRAM; 4GB, Voodoo3 PCI 2000) I ran top and the SIZE of XF86_SVGA > > goes to 54MB and RSIZE the same. > > Why ? > > I don't know, this is the FreeBSD Project's help mailing list, not > the XFree86 help mailing lists, you may want to check over at > http://www.xfree86.org for answers to that and other X server > questions. All I can really say is the an X server is a complicated > program that needs a lot of supporting code to do its job, hence the > large footprint. > > 450 bright 2 0 42328K 40088K select 1 1:07 0.00% 0.00% Xaccel > > *shrug* This is the X server from a Solaris box (Creator3D graphics): 11596 root 1 59 0 130M 40M sleep 0:23 2.71% Xsun The X server maps the framebuffer several times with different alignments into its process memory space, and all of that is accounted for the process size, of course. It only occupies a small fraction of that as physical RAM, so there is no need to worry. I guess that XFree86 does similar things, depending on the graphics hardware. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message