On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 18:13, 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. ... > >More or less. X is memory hungry. It will probably release some memory > >when/if your system gets low on memory. ... > Nope. It keeps 45 MB with any desktop that takes < 4MB (free RAM: about 8MB) and it takes 45MB with KDE (4MB > swap, free RAM 0)! You lost me here, "with any desktop that takes < 4MB" ? Well anyway: Ive have 256MByte, and only 4MByte free. Thats why you have swab space (34MByte used just now). Linux keeps (unused) buffers in memory until it _must_ free them. > >> 2)Can I reduce it? > > > >Lower resolution, less colors. No background. Lighter window manager. > 800x600x32. No background. I'm not talking about window managers, I'm just talking about the "XFREE86" voice in > top, and it doesn't change if I use Enlightment or KDE or any other window manager! (Why should it?) Why it should? Maybe, as an example, because X keeps a copy of every image in its own memory space (one of the many drawbacks of being client/server). One thing that have effect is fonts, do you have a huge amounth of fonts in use? Or do you use a font server? But at 800x600x32... its sounds a lot. Im running at 1280x1024x16 and X is only using 24MByte. Try to lower color depth. 16 is good, DRI works, images look ok, hw-acc works, and much lighter (in theory you should get down to half of the memory your using now). // Jarmo
