From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 13 7:10:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from team7.cba.ualr.edu (team7.cba.ualr.edu [144.167.120.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65D9415212 for ; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 07:10:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joe@team7.cba.ualr.edu) Received: from access45.mod1.ualr.edu (access45.mod1.ualr.edu [144.167.7.45]) by team7.cba.ualr.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA04055; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 09:10:44 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 09:10:13 -0600 (CST) From: Joe X-Sender: joe@njal.ualr.edu To: Stefan Parvu Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: top on 3.3 Rel In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19991213094250.0092a980@miina.comptel.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Stefan Parvu wrote: > Hi, > > I have a question regarding top. I have an AMD K6-333 MHz and 80MBRAM, HDD > 4GB, and a Voodoo3 PCI 2000. > Running XFree 3.3.5 as a X server top shows me that the SIZE for this > process is almost 54MB and the same for RSIZE. > > Why is so big ? It is something wrong ? > > Stef > This was taken off the FAQ at http://glide.xxedgexx.com/3DfxFAQ.html: Why does the Banshee X server use so much memory? Ps and top report the amount of memory being used by the number of pages mapped to your process. Because the Banshee has 16MB of framebuffer and 32MB of control registers the process size will be at least 48MB. Of course, this is using almost no RAM in your system since it is real memory or registers on the board. I believe this is what is happening with the Voodoo3 as well. -Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message