On Sat, 07 Mar 1998 17:11:59 +0100, Martin Solli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
>
> Hi all.
>
> Take a look at this:
>
> # ps m 408
>
> PID TTY MAJFLT MINFLT TRS DRS SIZE SWAP RSS SHRD LIB DT COMMAND
> 408 ? 12119 1585263 720 20492 36784 15572 21212 816 0 4921 X :0 -bpp
>
> (408 is the PID of the X server)
>
> The damn thing uses almost 40 megs memory! How do I stop this madness? :)
>
> I use RedHat 5.0, Linux 2.0.33, xfree86 3.3.1 (SVGA server), Afterstep, have
> ARK Logic 1000PV chipset.
>
> And btw, Netscape uses 25 megs w/7 windows. Is that normal?
>
> I really don't want my Linux box to use this much memory. I have 48MB
> physical and 48MB swap.
Point of reference:
Red Hat 4.2, Linux 2.0.33, XFree86 3.3.1 (SVGA), fvwm2, Millenium II (8Meg),
64M RAM, 24M swap.
# ps m 2737
PID TTY MAJFLT MINFLT TRS DRS SIZE SWAP RSS SHRD LIB DT COMMAND
2737 ? 612 255074 1344 13140 14484 0 14484 1620 0 3199
/usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 32
Do you restart X?
Bob
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