On Friday 01 November 2002 06:47 pm, Mike Fedyk wrote: > Hi, > > About a year ago I had a machine (since dismantled) that would reliably > have an Xserver (XF4.x) consume all available memory and cause the system > to be in an OOM state. > > Now in another machine I have a [1]Xserver using a lot of memory again. > Earlier today, the SIZE of the process was about 64MB, and now it's up to > 80MB. Is this normal? My system has been up for 7 days. > > Mike > > [1] > PID USER PRI NI PAGEIN SIZE SWAP RSS SHARE D LC %CPU %MEM TIME > COMMAND 709 root 15 -10 28607 81876 63M 16M 8520 3K 0 8.2 13.1 > 384:33 XFree86
You only need to worry if it continues to grow without bound over several weeks, which I would guess means you have a memory leak in part of the xserver specific to your video card. If you have a swap file/partition, this becomes not as important, as the leaked memory will eventually get pushed out into swap, and will never be called back in from swap. I have had leaky X video drivers before, but it would take months for that alone to fill up a large swap space. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
