>> >> 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" ? IceWM. Great stuff! > 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. Thanks now i get it.
