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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU!tmonroe From: tmonroe@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Anthony Monroe) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: XF86_SVGA eats 9Mb ? Date: 18 Oct 1995 22:04:59 GMT Organization: Computer Science Undergrad Assoc., Univ. of Calif. Berkeley Lines: 23 Message-ID: <463tmb$d6s@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <DGJqKz.2KI@cr-df.rnp.br> NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.csua.berkeley.edu In article <DGJqKz.2KI@cr-df.rnp.br>, Bernardo Brummer <bernardo> wrote: >My 32Mb EISA system is running out of memory. Doesn't seem normal, look at the >big (9Mb) XF86_SVGA process. My home system with only 16Mb runs ligther. >If I call a couple more apps it begins swapping (actually, it begins when top >shows 23M of Act Memory -> where is the rest to 32M), and if I close apps I >don't get the memory back. >Any ideas ? Not really. When this happened to me (on my 8 meg system) I noticed that my X server had grown to 18 megs. Hmm. So more than half of it was living in swap at any given time. Almost all of it, I would imagine, given that I was running netscape and mule (I think) at the time, in addition to the usual gobs of xterms... Needless to say, I had to kill the X server for performance to improve...and since I was running under an xdm, it made it even more fun. Aaah, the joys of startx... Remember, there's always the old-fashioned way to do things. -- tmonroe@csua.berkeley.edu "Experimental Non-Rabbit" Tony Monroe http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~tmonroe/ Computer Weenie and Weirdo in General