Hello... I'm using X 4 (from Woody), and I just noticed some strange thing:
10963 root 10 0 96404 80M 972 S 0 0.1 64.8 2:49 X ^^^^^^^^^^ (1st place, sorted by mem. usage) socrates jeronimo$ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 127044 124528 2516 0 644 14756 -/+ buffers/cache: 109128 17916 Swap: 256960 28568 228392 Why Does that happen? I never saw that sort of thing before (maybe because I never had so much memory -- I bought more 64 Mb RAM some days ago...) At the moment I ran top, only a few applications were running (gnapster, powershell, emacs and netscape). I killed Netscape and only 2 Mb were freed (I checked with ps, and it really was killed). So... Does X really need 80 Mb? :-) I don't think so (but I could be wrong...) Or did I misinterpret top's (and free's) output? J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]