[ale] X memory consumption
Thomas Holmquist
fishy at ipa.net
Wed Apr 23 22:51:40 EDT 2003
yes, I tend to try to avoid bloated apps, but Mozilla and X are 2 apps
one must have
Geoffrey wrote:
> 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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