Re: [expert] X uses LOTS of memory

2001-06-18 Thread Brian Schroeder
I did wonder about that. Is there any easy way to tell? Even so, it's still a lot of memory! Brian. >From: Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Brian Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [expert] X uses LOTS of memory >Date:

Re: [expert] X uses LOTS of memory

2001-06-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Brian Schroeder am Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 04:36:54PM +0930: > I have since installed the nVidia drivers (which worked first time!), > but now see X using 145% of the memory: 191M!. Hence, swap is very > much in use. Is swap really in use? Here at home (same config as yours), it's not.

[expert] X uses LOTS of memory

2001-06-15 Thread Brian Schroeder
I am using LM7.2 with an nVidia TNT Riva 32M graphics card. Using top, I noticed that the X process was using about 45% of the memory - 56M out of a total of 128M. Why should X use so much memory? I have since installed the nVidia drivers (which worked first time!), but now see X using 145% of