i think this was a problem with nvidia's drivers, i got the updated ones from
yesterday, it X only takes up at 30 megs of my ram now, and everything runs
really fast
mark
On Thursday 20 September 2001 10:25 am, you wrote:
> On wo, 2001-09-19 at 23:11, Tom Badran wrote:
> > 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.
>
> That is not it. Top (or whatever you are using) is just lying. It sees
> also the videomemory and counts that too. multipule times
