On Sunday 03 August 2003 05:48, Maynard Kuona wrote:
> The system feels quite unresponsive and redrawing seems quite slow. for
> example, when dragging borders in any gtk2/gnome2 app, it seems to wait
> for me to actually stop dragging before it redraws properly. So I
> thought it may have something to do with constrained resources.
>
> On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 11:06, Klaasjan Brand wrote:
> > On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 15:34, Maynard Kuona wrote:
> > > I frequently get memory usage in X of larger than 200MB. Is this
> > > normal. I once heard that part of that is the Video RAM, but I have had
> > > it go up to 300MB. How can I get it to come down to reasonable levels.
> >
> > I think I've read somewhere the video ram is mapped multiple times, so
> > there's no real reason to worry except that this "pollutes" the memory
> > stats for the X process. Since you're trying to get it "down", do you
> > have any specific problems with your memory?
> >
> > Klaasjan
[joebewan@xxxxx joebewan]$ cat /proc/meminfo
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 393785344 376782848 17002496 0 55242752 235196416
Swap: 534634496 26517504 508116992
This is typical memory usage for my machine. I've read a few posts that seem
to indicate it's a pretty common issue.
Don't know what is it the cause.
For what it's worth, I'm running an "everything" install and KDE.
Joebewan
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