On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 11:14 -0500, Gregory Gulik wrote: > > I'm using the nv driver on my laptop with FC5. Recently (last couple > weeks) I noticed that X is REALLY slow at times and it appears to be > due to /usr/bin/Xorg consuming vast amounts of memory causing the > machine to swap. I have 512M of RAM so it should be adequate. > > PID TTY STAT TIME MAJFL TRS DRS RSS %MEM COMMAND > 3046 tty7 Rs+ 17:46 37411 1739 286624 224428 > 28.9 /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -aud > it 0 -auth /var/gdm/:0.Xauth vt7
The X server is often a container for pixmaps from other applications.
If you run xrestop it could help to diagnose if it is truly the X server
or one of the applications on the system which is consuming the memory.
For instance here's some output (modified to fit the screen) of xrestop:
Monitoring 33 clients. XErrors: 0
Pixmaps: 52397K total, Other: 133K total, All: 52531K
total
Fnts Pxms Misc Pxm mem Other Total PID Identifier
1 177 34 29162K 6K 29169K ? Damn Small Lin1800000
1 13 113 10405K 5K 10411K ? [EMAIL PROTECTED]
0 0 0 4800K 0B 4800K ? <unknown>
In this case, 40MB on my XServer is being consumed by firefox and
gnome-terminal (The first two entries).
(xrestop is available in Fedora Core. If you don't have it installed,
yum install xrestop should install it for you.)
-Toshio
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