yes xorg is different but they forked xfree since xfree went to an
incompatible license.
William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> Dave wrote:
>
>>On 10/20/05, William Warren <hescominsoon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>18 megs of swap with a gig installed is nothing significant. As far as
>>>cached memory not being used. If xorg is using 750 megs of ram there's
>>>not a whole bunch left for a file cache after the other applications are
>>>also allocated.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> The xorg memory consumtion is a different issue, I've had that
>>problem for awile now, thats why I put in another 512 of ram so I can
>>reboot twice a month instead of every weekend.
>>
>> I'm curious if something has changed in the way memory is managed, I
>>was under the impression that there should be very little free memory
>>since the cache and buffers should be using it.
>>
>>
>
> Sounds like a memory leak, not unheard of in X servers. SGI has had some
> famous ones over the years :-). Also not uncommon given the change from
> XFree86 to Xorg (different team as I understood it).
>
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