> X usage can also include your video memory, so it's not allways a > problem when it seems to use a lot of memory (check the FAQ in the > package docs). Now you state after that you're using 890MB of Swap, is > that also from the JVM or are your other apps using it? Specifically, > what does top say about resident memory usage?
I have the same problem, after launching Eclipse, the memory consumption of the Xorg process rises dramatically. According to top: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 19170 root 15 0 544m 190m 916 S 4.0 37.8 23:47.14 Xorg it uses more than 500 megs while its normal consumption is below 100. Strange is that the consumption does not decrease at all if I quit eclipse! (It does not increase any higher if I start Eclipse again.) Is it a bug in Xorg? I don't think its normal... Georgy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]