On Sun, 2 May 1999, Brian Servis wrote: > > This is crazy! Why is X taking so much memory? This is the result of > ps axmw trimmed to show only X and netscape(4.5glibc2). The machine has > only been up just under 2 days. >
Remember that applications can allocate server-side resources, such as pixmaps. Pixmaps are pretty big. So if an app is buggy and doesn't deallocate these things the X process can get largish. Not to say the X server isn't at fault, but it's more likely to be a buggy application. Havoc
