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Subject: Re: XInside's AccelX - 20% real memory?
To: JSINNOTT@POMONA.EDU (JOHN)
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 12:31:37 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <01I6APLP4NIQ8WWODO@POMONA.EDU> from "JOHN" at Jun 24, 96 06:53:07 pm
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JOHN writes:
>
> Running AccelX on FreeBSD, with 1152x9?? resolution and 65,000+ colors,
> should the XServer show a 20% memory usage with ps aux?  This is on
> a PC with 48MB of memory, so this is 9MB+ of RAM.  Does this sound reasonable?

I don't know if it's reasonable, but it's normal.  I'm running
double-headed on a BSD/OS box (P/133, 64 MB, ATI GUP at 1280x1024 and
Matrox Millenium at 1600x1200), and this is what I get from ps -u:

root       162  1.4 28.7 15860 18196  ??  S    Mon06PM   18:59.15 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/AcceleratedX/arch/BSDI/Xaccel :0

Older versions always seem to have bloated up to this size before
dying of amnesia, but even shortly after starting up it goes up to
about 8 MB.  Admittedly, I have a large number of windows open
(currently 23).

Greg