onsdagen den 9 april 2003 00.32 skrev kosh: > X memory usage is evil black magic to figure out. > It also includes AGP mapped memory, pixmaps and stuff that programs have > open get charged to X and damned if I know how much other stuff it has. At > one point I had X showing it was using 1G of ram on a system with 256MB > with no swap usage at all. The card had 64MB and I had left the bios at > default for AGP size.
I have 4MB on my graphics card, which means that if X is charged with that, it won't matter very much. But I have found that starting some graphical applications causes X memory to grow A LOT. The normal web browsers appears to be pretty bad, when it comes to memory. Just starting netscape/mozilla, will eat 75MB of RAM. Each instance of konqueror takes around 10MB extra. They also causes X to allocate more memory, which it does not give back. So it might be that X has memory leaks, after all. The whole discussion was how much RAM is needed, and in my opinion, 128MB is too little. It works, but causes a lot of swapping with normal things like web browsing etc. The best and cheapest speed up for a 128MB system is to get more RAM. Karolina
