On Wednesday 19 September 2001 9:19 pm, you wrote:
> I x 4.1.0 running the latest nvidia drivers for my geforce 3.  I dont' know
> if it was the upgrade from 8.0 to 8.1 beta 3 or the update up the nvidia
> drivers( i upated them both the same day).  Why does X take up on average
> 250megs of my 512 megs of ram? isn't this a little excessive??

I believe that X takes up  a lot of ram to act as a cache. The ram used is 
not actually full, just reserved for Xapplications = at least this is how i 
understand it.

-- 
Tom "Tomahawk" Badran
Department of Computing, Imperial College

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