On 2007/12/13 17:19 (GMT) Dave Howorth apparently typed:
Felix Miata wrote:
After relatively recent updates, X seems to be gobbling up a lot more RAM than I can remember it needing before. Top now shows 6.6 days uptime, and Xorg using 40.6% of 2G of RAM (861m virt). 2nd place goes to SeaMonkey trunk, using 11.2% of 2G of RAM up about 5.5 days. Epiphany uses 1.8%. Skype uses 1.5%. Everything else uses 1% or less each. Kcmshell memory shows application data consuming 68% of physical RAM. Anyone else seeing excessive RAM consumption?
It's perhaps (probably?) not X itself but some client that is gobbling the memory. My favourite suspect is Firefox. Try killing all Firefox windows (make sure the process is gone) and see what happens. Or could be some other application using X resources.
FF wasn't open. As indicated, SM trunk had been up for 5+ days. Closing SM dropped Xorg from 41% to 11.6%. Maybe it's pango or cairo trouble if not Gecko trunk, but I just don't expect top to show X to be separately gobbling RAM just because SM is. It's like for each byte SM wastes, Xorg wastes an extra two. :-p -- " Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org