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


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