[Newbie]RAM flooded

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> On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 15:32, CRV§ADER/KY wrote:
> ...
> > X11 4.2.0 hw accelerated (started with the
> > automatic "init 5" at boot) takes 45MB of RAM on a
> > single process
> > (according to top's report), plus 4MB of X Font
> > server.
> > 1)Is that normal?
> 
> More or less. X is memory hungry. It will probably
> release some memory
> when/if your system gets low on memory.

It's worth noting that some of the RAM that top
reports X using is really the video RAM on your card -
using 45MB is thus pretty reasonable on a 32MB card
(13MB really being used). Even if you have an 8MB or
16MB card, that's still not too bad.


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