> I'm running MDK 9.0 and had KDE with a few Galeon's open, and the workstation > had been up for several days. One night, memory consumed by the X process > reached over 200 MB and the system started to swap for everything. I had > never seen this before. > > X is configured using the stock nv driver, 24-bit color. I understand how a > process like Galeon might run away, but what causes X itself to bloat up? If > it's an application, how do you figure out which one?
Yup I am noticing this behaviour all the time... my system never goes into the swap file though.... It has been common for X to eat over 300mb.... Though it seems to give back when memory reaches 100%. I am using the nvidia driver.
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