Memory usage problems with X.org on ProSavage DDR

[milnser43200 at yahoo.com]

I greatly apologize  about the delayed response. I have attempted to use pmap but it appears to be unavialable on FreeBSD, I attempted to compile it with no success and it is marked broken in ports. I have been looking for solutions to this but nothing yet. 


--- On Sat, 11/8/08, John Tapsell <johnflux at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: John Tapsell <johnflux at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Memory usage problems with X.org on ProSavage DDR
> To: milnser43200 at yahoo.com
> Cc: xorg at lists.freedesktop.org
> Date: Saturday, November 8, 2008, 2:16 PM
> Hi,
> 
>   Could you run
> 
> sudo pmap -d pidofxorg
> 
>   and paste the result please?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> John
> 
> 2008/11/8 milnser43200 at yahoo.com
> <milnser43200 at yahoo.com>:
> > I am using X.org on a s3 Prosavage video adapter,
> using video driver savage. I have been having significant
> problems with the vast amounts of memory that are being
> consumed, living very little space left for other
> applications. For instance, here is the readout from top
> that shows what i am talking about:
> >   1  96    0   302M 20304K select  24.0H  3.61% Xorg
> >
> > This is really a huge problem has a have a limited
> amount of memory and disk space and because of this massive
> amount of memory consumed, other applications are running
> out of memory and crashing.
> >
> > I know X.org should probably not be using this much
> memory and there is a bug somewhere in the software that is
> doing this. If you need any logs or anything please ask.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> >
> >
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