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[alastair.burt@xxxxxxxxxxx (Alastair Burt)]

I wonder if anyone could explain to me the reason why X + Nvidia drivers
reports such high memory usage:

 /proc/<pid>/stat w/ nvidia module:

   Name:   X

   VmSize:   209152 kB
   VmLck:         0 kB
   VmRSS:     24636 kB
   VmData:    18632 kB
   VmStk:       776 kB
   VmExe:      1340 kB
   VmLib:      1364 kB

 /proc/<pid>/stat w/ nv module:

   Name:   X

   VmSize:    65252 kB
   VmLck:         0 kB
   VmRSS:     12932 kB
   VmData:     9900 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?

--- Alastair

Setup:

 SuSE 7.2
 Kernel 2.4.4
 XFree86 Version 4.0.3
 Leadtek Geforce 2 MX