I've only got 64Mb RAM on motherboard and sometimes its using 64Mb of swap space,
yeah I didn't make it 128 because the hdd came from
an old machine. Anyway it is thrashing (: So much that it is close to unusable.
Jean-Louis Debert wrote:
> Alwyn Schoeman wrote:
> >
> > While we're on the subject, I've got a Riva TNT2 chipset card from Gigabyte
> > ... its got 32 Mb. The Xserver I use is SVGA since I choose the Diamond TNT2
> > setting in Xconfigurator...
> >
> > My X suddenly uses between 44 and 48 Mb of RAM???????
>
> 1. there is no direct relation between the actual memory on the board,
> and that used by X ... X also needs RAM for tables, objects, buffers,
> etc,
> that may or may not be located on the board's RAM.
>
> 2. there are also memory _mapped_ things (ex. graphic processor's
> registers)
> that are _not_ really memory but are accessed using memory interface,
> so X
> sees them as memory.
> On modern graphic cards the memory range for such can be huge (several
> MB)
> but I repeat, this is _not_ real memory, it is only _seen_ as such by
> software.
>
>
> --
> Jean-Louis Debert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 74 Annemasse France
> old Linux fan
--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Alwyn Schoeman
Systems Engineer
Prism Secure Solutions
