On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 11:42:08AM +0100, Xavier Sanz wrote: > Alexis Roda wrote: > > >Hi, > >recently I've purchased a MSI Geforce MX440. X is configured with the > >latest nvidia drivers, dualhead (twinview), one monitor 1600x1200 and > >the other 1240x1024 with a virtual desktop of 1240x1200, 16bits. It > >works great but when I run top I see that X is eating 271Mb or RAM!!! Is > >this normal or I'm missing something? > > > >I'm runing debian woody with a custom kernel 2.4.18 > > > > > > > >Thanks in advance > > > > > > I think that's something related to agp module/driver.
Not only that, but X mmap()'s all the card's memory. So, if you have (say) two 64MB cards, then that'll add 128MB to X's footprint right off the bat. This is *not* taking up any of your actual RAM, it's just an artifact of how the kernel reports memory usage. -rob
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