[Gllug] OT(ish): Advice

[Pete Ryland]

On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 16:03, Tethys wrote:
> We've already met, but even accounting for that:
> 
>   PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS COMMAND
>  1172  0.4  2.8 99168 14560 X
>  1410  0.0  0.6  5968 3516 enlightenment

Hmm.. have you enabled saveunders?  Do you have a different background
image on each virtual desktop?  You seriously can't be trying hard
enough at only 14.5MB RSS. :)

root       559  8.2 35.3 202580 68036 ?      S<   Dec14 223:23
/usr/bin/X11/X :0 -deferglyphs 16 -nolisten tcp vt7 -auth
/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth

Seems my X is on about 200M VSZ (with WindowMaker, gnome-panel,
vmware[1], galeon, evolution and a bunch of gnome-terms running). 
Sheesh, and this thing only has 256MB RAM with 64MB sliced off for the
video card.

The thing is, though, that X won't deallocate memory (I've been led to
believe) unless it's needed by other processes; so if you have gobs of
memory, it will just keep allocating it.

BTW, I have nothing against enlightenment - in fact I look forward to
its next release.

Pete

[1] I'm doing some browser compatibility tests, ok?!
-- 
Pete Ryland
http://pdr.cx/


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