On 8/2/07, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I think most of the virtual memory used by X is actually the map of the > > > graphics card's memory AFAIK, so it's not as significant as you think. > > That machine has an on-board chipset (i845) and has only 8MB > > shared memory allotted to the card .... > You don't seem familiar with the meaning of VIRT in the memory > allocation listing there. That'll be Alvaro, maybe? I'm quite aware of it, I just pointed out to him that the VSIZE is NOT the devices memory mapping. And I still think that running X on a server is unnecessary, wasteful and potentially harmful. The less you run, the less can go wrong, the less potential exploits you have. Cheers, Andrej -- Please don't top post, and don't use HTML e-Mail :} Make your quotes concise. http://www.american.edu/econ/notes/htmlmail.htm ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
