Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 18:12:56 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KDE 3.5.0 seems much chubbier than 3.4.2 Message-ID: <200602021812.59001.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20060202071137.GB921@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <200601301652.16237.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <200602020952.39010.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20060202071137.GB921@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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--nextPart3255083.LCvO2a4O8M Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 02 February 2006 17:41, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Thu, 2006-Feb-02 09:52:22 +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > >Also, xrestop shows X using 120Mb of pixmaps. > >X's size is 315M, and I have a 64Mb video card. > > > >64 + 120 =3D 184 > >315 - 184 =3D 131 > > > >ie 131Mb of space that X is using but no obvious reason.. > > There's a lot more to X than the video memory and pixmaps. Sure, but 131Mb is a lot of "other". > In my case (this is X.org 6.9.0 on 6-stable/amd64 but the principle is > the same), I have 32MB video RAM, 28MB pixmaps and ps report that X > is using 78MB - a difference of 18M. > > If I look at the process memory map (see procfs(5)), the breakdown is: > 38MB vnode backed (mostly shared libraries) > 32MB device (video memory) > 6.75MB swap + default (malloc'd space, stack etc) > > This suggests that X is storing a lot of pixmaps in video RAM (for > efficiency). [inchoate 18:12] ~ >ps -axw| grep bin/X 826 ?? S 66:52.15 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp :0 -auth /var/run/= xauth/A:0-lKynIa (Xorg) [inchoate 18:12] ~ >sudo cat /proc/826/map cat: /proc/826/map: File too large Broken in -current? =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart3255083.LCvO2a4O8M Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBD4bgC5ZPcIHs/zowRAvycAJ42HP6gRu4LoAPWuKbdq5ZdexHHdgCfRDrN 8QmbpurdEPyoeaecepTVGhE= =phSI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3255083.LCvO2a4O8M--
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