From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 11 13:36:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63D3C37B401 for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 13:36:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C019343E3B for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 13:36:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org ([24.147.188.198]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20021111213620.LVTV15364.rwcrmhc53.attbi.com@be-well.ilk.org> for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 21:36:20 +0000 Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gABLaHNX043395 for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 16:36:17 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gABLaCAG043392; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 16:36:12 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree86 memory usage References: <20021111102049.X4010-100000@daemon.velosystems.net> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 11 Nov 2002 16:36:11 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20021111102049.X4010-100000@daemon.velosystems.net> Message-ID: <44bs4vyek4.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steve Wingate 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message