Memory Usage by X

[Daniel Stone]

On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 09:34:06PM +0000, Paulo J. Matos wrote:
> Running Xorg-x11 7.1. I've left some compilation running on a konsole
> in X during the night. Uptime in X is around 21 hours. My laptop is
> dying... Checking top gives me:
> 9011 root      15   0 1146m 666m 3992 S  9.3 65.9 130:07.35 X
> 
> 65.9% of mem usage? Probably it can't get more because the rest is
> distributed by the other apps. Worse, all mem and swap seem to be in
> use:
> $ free -m
>             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:          1011        993         18          0          4         57
> -/+ buffers/cache:        931         79
> Swap:          494        494          0
> 
> Why is this? Is there any known leak in 7.1? Is this normal?

No, none known.  Try using a utility like xrestop: often it turns out to
be rogue clients stealing pixmap memory (not to mention a large,
misleading, chunk of it which is just your video memory being mapped).

Cheers,
Daniel
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