On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 11:14:48AM +0200, Jerome Lacoste wrote: | I have the following in top: | | PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND | 532 root 16 -10 289M 32M 7528 S < 54.6 6.5 8:35 XFree86 | | I think there is a problem there. XFree86 takes way too much space and | CPU. Have anybody encountered the same problem?
The SIZE column is useless. I forget the details why, but it often confuses the "uniniated". The RSS is the how much heap the process really has. The %MEM shows how much of your real memory (not swap) the process is using. Do you have 256MB or 512MB RAM? (Hint: use the RSS and %MEM to compute approximately how much real memory you have) As for the CPU usage, what are you doing? If I open a large page in galeon (almost full-screen window) and scroll through the whole thing at once, line-by-line, X will peg my CPU. It's one of the effects of doing lots of video, and using vesafb. | Now after a restart it is: | | PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND | 1895 root 9 -10 281M 25M 7528 S < 0.1 5.0 1:01 XFree86 | | I think it still takes a lot of memory. Is that normal? Looks pretty normal to me (that SIZE column looks odd, but I'd have to research the problems with SIZE to figure out why) : PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 25655 root 5 -10 43080 26M 14388 S < 0.1 10.4 72:55 XFree86 (I have 256MB RAM, see how the RSS*%MEM is (approximately) the amount of memory I have?) | I didn't notice that before last week, after I tried to enable true type | fonts. I have true-type fonts enabled, I don't know how much I'm really using them, though. | Appart from xfstt still running I'm not using xfs at all. For a single system, I think it only doubles memory consumption (one copy of font for xfs, one for X). HTH, -D -- Microsoft DNS service terminates abnormally when it receives a response to a dns query that was never made. Fix information: run your DNS service on a different platform. -- bugtraq http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/
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