X is consuming ~100 GiB of RAM(!)

2017-12-05 Thread Ewen Chan
To Whom It May Concern: Hello everybody. My name is Ewen and I am new to this distribution list. So let me start with a little bit of background and the problem statement of what I am seeing/encountering. I am running a SuperMicro Server 6027TR-HTRF ( https://www.supermicro.com/products/system/2

Re: X is consuming ~100 GiB of RAM(!)

2017-12-05 Thread Hi-Angel
The troubleshooting link you provided states that the high memory usage typically belongs to some other application. Sorry, I am just an occasional bystander here, and can't tell much of technical details, but I imagine it works like this(I hope someone will correct me on details): an app requests,

Re: X is consuming ~100 GiB of RAM(!)

2017-12-05 Thread Ewen Chan
Not really sure. Someone suggested that I tried Xvfb but I didn't really know how I can use that without using an X server already, and again, in trying to conduct my own due diligence research into the issue, I stumbled upon using ssh -Y and enabling X11 forwarding via ssh so I will have to see h

Re: X is consuming ~100 GiB of RAM(!)

2017-12-05 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
On Tue, 5 Dec 2017, Ewen Chan wrote: Not really sure. Someone suggested that I tried Xvfb but I didn't really know how I can use that without using an X server already, and again, in trying to conduct my own due diligence research into the issue, I stumbled upon using ssh -Y and enabling X11

Re: X is consuming ~100 GiB of RAM(!)

2017-12-05 Thread Hi-Angel
On 6 December 2017 at 02:36, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: > > Also, given the the high usage does not happen outside of gnome session, > perhaps this is connected to compositing.. There're 2 mails which didn't get yet into the ML because they contain a screenshot, and mailman complained about a susp

Re: X is consuming ~100 GiB of RAM(!)

2017-12-05 Thread Ewen Chan
I could try that. I will have to do quite a bit of research to figure out how though, but ok. Thank you. On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 7:36 PM, Hi-Angel wrote: > On 6 December 2017 at 02:36, Vladimir Dergachev > wrote: > > > > Also, given the the high usage does not happen outside of gnome session,

Re: X is consuming ~100 GiB of RAM(!)

2017-12-05 Thread Ewen Chan
I'm a little bit confused by your reply here. If it doesn't rely on GL, can you please help clarify why would I want to use Xvnc instead? (Was that suppose to be "If it DOES (rely on GL), to use Xvnc instead"?) Thanks. On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 7:17 PM, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: > > > On Tue, 5

Re: X is consuming ~100 GiB of RAM(!)

2017-12-05 Thread Jose R R
Niltze [Hello], Ewen- On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 6:53 PM, Ewen Chan wrote: > I could try that. > > I will have to do quite a bit of research to figure out how though, but ok. As long as you properly fulfill dependencies, Xorg devs script can fetch the source and build it for your system. < https://ww

Re: X is consuming ~100 GiB of RAM(!)

2017-12-05 Thread aivils
Hi, Don't worry. Count the digits. 100Mb consuming is pretty ordinary nowadays. They are not Gigabytes. Ewen Chan @ 2017-12-05 20:14 rakstīja: ewen@aes4:~> date Tue Dec 5 05:08:28 EST 2017 ewen@aes4:~> ps aux | grep Xorg root 2245 7.7 79.0 271100160 104332316 tty7 Ssl+ Nov25 1078:19 /usr/bin/