[ale] X memory consumption

[Geoffrey]

Transam wrote:
> 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.

Wow, I don't have that problem.  I leave my box on with X running 24x7. 
   Here's the output from top:

1191 root      15   0  191M 132M  4960 S    10.9 26.3  4799m X

4799 minutes...  That's just under 80 hours.

I leave mozilla up all the time too.

> Ditto for Netscrape.
> 
> 
>>Thanks!
> 
> 
>>John
> 
> 
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