Re: [Cooker] X taking up a lot of memmory

2001-09-20 Thread Mark D'voo 

i think this was a problem with nvidia's drivers, i got the updated ones from 
yesterday, it X only takes up at 30 megs of my ram now, and everything runs 
really fast

mark

On Thursday 20 September 2001 10:25 am, you wrote:
> On wo, 2001-09-19 at 23:11, Tom Badran wrote:
> > On Wednesday 19 September 2001 9:19 pm, you wrote:
> > > I x 4.1.0 running the latest nvidia drivers for my geforce 3.  I dont'
> > > know if it was the upgrade from 8.0 to 8.1 beta 3 or the update up the
> > > nvidia drivers( i upated them both the same day).  Why does X take up
> > > on average 250megs of my 512 megs of ram? isn't this a little
> > > excessive??
> >
> > I believe that X takes up  a lot of ram to act as a cache. The ram used
> > is not actually full, just reserved for Xapplications = at least this is
> > how i understand it.
>
> That is not it. Top (or whatever you are using) is just lying. It sees
> also the videomemory and counts that too. multipule times

Re: [Cooker] X taking up a lot of memmory

2001-09-19 Thread Fabrice FACORAT 

Le Jeudi 20 Septembre 2001 05:24, Mark D'voo scribit :
> > root@leia:~>cat /proc/`pidof X`/status  | grep Vm
> > VmSize:52064 kB
> > VmLck: 0 kB
> > VmRSS:   360 kB
> > VmData: 6196 kB
> > VmStk:   192 kB
> > VmExe:  1440 kB
> > VmLib:  1812 kB
>
> here's what i get when i do a: cat /proc/`pidof X`/status  | grep Vm
>
> VmSize:  1286396 kB
> VmLck: 0 kB
> VmRSS:341592 kB
> VmData:  1060964 kB
> VmStk:   280 kB
> VmExe:  1440 kB
> VmLib:  1588 kB

Athlon 800Mhz slot A ( Asus k7v ) + kernel 2.4.8-24mdk + XFree 4.1.0-15mdk + 
nvidia 1.0-1512 + kde 2.2.1-1mdk + 256Mo RAM + 769Mo swap

[root@bastard will]# cat /proc/`pidof X`/status  | grep Vm
VmSize:   537088 kB
VmLck: 0 kB
VmRSS: 0 kB
VmData:   340576 kB
VmStk:   224 kB
VmExe:  1440 kB
VmLib:  2252 kB

-- 
Copyleft Faber's prod. 2001
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/linux_wizard/index.html

Re: [Cooker] X taking up a lot of memmory

2001-09-19 Thread Mark D'voo 

On Wednesday 19 September 2001 03:49 pm, you wrote:
> "Mark D'voo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I x 4.1.0 running the latest nvidia drivers for my geforce 3.  I dont'
> > know if it was the upgrade from 8.0 to 8.1 beta 3 or the update up the
> > nvidia drivers( i upated them both the same day).  Why does X take up on
> > average 250megs of my 512 megs of ram? isn't this a little excessive??
>
> beware of X server memory figures:
>
> root@leia:~>cat /proc/`pidof X`/status  | grep Vm
> VmSize:52064 kB
> VmLck: 0 kB
> VmRSS:   360 kB
> VmData: 6196 kB
> VmStk:   192 kB
> VmExe:  1440 kB
> VmLib:  1812 kB

here's what i get when i do a: cat /proc/`pidof X`/status  | grep Vm

VmSize:  1286396 kB
VmLck: 0 kB
VmRSS:341592 kB
VmData:  1060964 kB
VmStk:   280 kB
VmExe:  1440 kB
VmLib:  1588 kB

mark

>
> aka it only uses 360KB of memory. The 6MB Data must be swapped out.

Re: [Cooker] X taking up a lot of memmory

2001-09-19 Thread Tom Badran 

On Wednesday 19 September 2001 9:19 pm, you wrote:
> I x 4.1.0 running the latest nvidia drivers for my geforce 3.  I dont' know
> if it was the upgrade from 8.0 to 8.1 beta 3 or the update up the nvidia
> drivers( i upated them both the same day).  Why does X take up on average
> 250megs of my 512 megs of ram? isn't this a little excessive??

I believe that X takes up  a lot of ram to act as a cache. The ram used is 
not actually full, just reserved for Xapplications = at least this is how i 
understand it.

-- 
Tom "Tomahawk" Badran
Department of Computing, Imperial College

[Cooker] X taking up a lot of memmory

2001-09-19 Thread Mark D'voo 

I x 4.1.0 running the latest nvidia drivers for my geforce 3.  I dont' know 
if it was the upgrade from 8.0 to 8.1 beta 3 or the update up the nvidia 
drivers( i upated them both the same day).  Why does X take up on average 
250megs of my 512 megs of ram? isn't this a little excessive??

mark