X uses too much memory

[Bernardo Innocenti]

Leo wrote:

>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>  9597 root      15   0  791m 576m 9656 S  1.7 58.1  16:23.92 Xorg

Is it just after starting the server, with no
clients loaded?

Please note that X allocates resources as requested by
clients.  And XSHM mappings gets accounted to the
server too.

Use xrestop to find out more details.  Firefox is
one of the worst offenders.

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