[Gllug] Icewm

[Steve Nicholson]

> xfce won't be causing the problem.  X 'lies' about its memory usage -
> look at the RSS value rather than SIZE for a more accurate figure:
>
>    PID USER  PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM
> TIME COMMAND
>    316 root   13 -10 25356 9916   820 S <  0  2.5  7.8 13:39 XFree86

Chris thanks for this, RSS is still going over 100MB, I've found it's
dillo coursing the problem, each time a new page is accessed RSS goes
up.  I have 192MB ram and have set swap to only 8MB (didn't expect to be
using swap), it appears (haven't checked it properly) that once I hit
the swap file dillo crashes.  I think that's what's happening anyway.
When dillo crashes, normally vanishes from the screen (that's all open
dillo windows) when I access a new page and the RSS of XFree86 drops
back down to something like 30-40MB.

Is it normal for XFree86 to grow as applications are opened in X?  I
noticed that adding background images to the desktop increased XFree86's
size (RSS).  What doesn't RSS stand for, I couldn't see it in the man
page for ps?

Also forgot to mention that XFce has excellent xinerama support, much
better than what I've seen in Gnome 1.4 for the short time I played with
it.

Steve.


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