Interestingly, if I close Firefox, the xrestop numbers drop about what
you'd expect (~83 MB):
xrestop - Display: localhost:0
Monitoring 35 clients. XErrors: 0
Pixmaps: 30777K total, Other: 841K total, All: 31619K total
res-base Wins GCs Fnts Pxms Misc Pxm mem Other Total PID Identifier
2600000 11 48 1 25 18 9287K 2K 9290K ? Spark - graeme
3400000 5074 36 0 2539 7640 8707K 298K 9006K 6263 notification-d
However, the actual memory usage of X hasn't dropped anywhere near that
much:
4857 root 16 0 203m 146m 12m S 35 7.3 58:52.79 Xorg
And with only 30 MB being used for pixmaps (according to xrestop),
there's no explanation for why X is still using 146MB of RAM.
Is there any other way than xrestop to figure out what X's memory is
being used for?
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