On Thursday 27 September 2001 17:01, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > Hi, > I've noticed a strange X server behavior regarding to Memory > utilization. Look at this "ps" output: > > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND > .... > root 20454 0.0 99.9 204284 4294964944 ? S<L Sep26 1:36 > /usr/X11R6/bin/X root 23460 0.0 2.2 13172 5828 ? S Sep26 > 0:00 -:0 .... > > Top gives the same impression: > --------------------------------------- > 11:50:52 up 2 days, 20:24, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.04 > 56 processes: 54 sleeping, 1 running, 1 zombie, 0 stopped > CPU states: 0.3% user, 0.5% system, 0.0% nice, 99.2% idle > Mem: 256044K total, 185564K used, 70480K free, 756K buffers > Swap: 128484K total, 10148K used, 118336K free, 34088K cached > > PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND > 20454 root 8 -10 195M -2M 1788 S < 0.2 99.9 1:36 XFree86 > ----------------------------------------- > > Any ideas on why this is happening and if I should worry about > it? I'm running woody, with the following additional info: > > Package: xfree86-common Version: 4.1.0-5 > Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.1.0-5 > Package: nvidia-glx Version: 1.0.1512-2 > Package: nvidia-kernel-2.4.10 Version: 1.0.1512-1 > > kernel 2.4.10, icewm, kdm, etc.. on a single PIII machine, 256MB > > ~$ cat /proc/nv/card0 > ----- Driver Info ----- > NVRM Version: 1.0-1512 > ------ Card Info ------ > Model: RIVA TNT2 (M64) > IRQ: 11 > Video BIOS: 02.05.11.12 > ------ AGP Info ------- > AGP status: Enabled > ... > ------------------------------------------------- > > > []s, > Mario O.de Menezes "Many are the plans in a man's heart, but > IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails" > http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21
If i'm not totally wrong, this bogus information can be caused because top and ps include the 32MB of memory that exists on the TNT 2 card.
