Re: [SLE] Nvidia Drivers and X Memory Consumption

4 Oct 2001


      On Wednesday 03 October 2001 17:23, you wrote:
...
I wonder if anyone could explain to me the reason why X + Nvidia drivers
reports such high memory usage:
VmSize:   209152 kB
    VmRSS:     24636 kB
    VmData:    18632 kB
    VmStk:       776 kB
    VmExe:      1340 kB
    VmLib:      1364 kB
Does X really need 200 MB? I suspect that the memory usage is just
incorrectly reported, since the total memory usage reported by the 'free'
command would not seem to include such a huge chunk. Can anyone explain?
VmSize is the virtual memory size. IMHO, it is that large due to 
graphics memory getting mapped into virtual memory. This does NOT 
consume your RAM, so that should not do any harm to you. 
(For details, look at /proc/<XFree-pid>/maps.)

Wolly