On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 02:11:10 +0300 (EEST) Steve Stavropoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Alex Dunaevski wrote: > > > I discovered X server eating lots of memory while working with subj. > > Moreover after i close GIMP it remains allocated, here's line from ps: > > ... > > root 948 11.0 55.5 159540 70648 ? SL 14:19 20:20 /usr/X11R6/bin/X > > ^^^^ > > ... > > > > I have 128mb RAM +190mb swap, so 55% is quite a lot. > > The only way to free that memory is terminating X server :( > > > > Keep in mind that the memory usage of X includes the video ram of your > graphics card. So, if you have a card with 64MB of ram, then ps will show > X having 64+X MB. > In the line you pasted we can see that only 70MB are currently used by > the X server and I assume that most of them are from the graphics card. Both system RAM and swap are getting exhaused, how can it be related to video RAM mapping ?? > In any case, that's not a gimp bug. i'd like to believe -- Live your way || Think different || And... install LINUX Alexander Dunaevski -RenderMan- ICQ #290452774 _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
