[ale] X memory consumption

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On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 08:44:45AM -0400, John Wells wrote:
> Trying to track down memory hoarders on my machine.  X is currently using
> 112M physical ram and 83M swap...(RH9, Gnome)

> Does this size represent *all* applications running under X, or just X
> itself?  Does this seem a little big to anyone else?

Just X.

How long has your X server been running?  That piece of junk leaks
memory rather severely.  You may want to restart it at least weekly.
Ditto for Netscrape.

> Thanks!

> John

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