i run xrestop on a Kubuntu with desktop effects enabled (Kubuntu 9.10 kernel 2.6.31-16-generic #53 x86_64 with nvidia 195.22) and on another with desktop effects disabled (Kubuntu 10.04 kernel 2.6.32-7-generic #10 x86_64 with radeon xorg driver).
On both machines xorg was eating up memory. I ran xrestop on both and saw that pixmaps uses a lot of the memory. On machine with 9.10: xrestop: Display: :0 Monitoring 48 clients. XErrors: 6 Pixmaps: 498688K total, Other: 99K total, All: 498788K total top: top - 21:14:34 up 2:10, 2 users, load average: 0.16, 0.22, 0.25 Tasks: 186 total, 3 running, 183 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 6.3%us, 9.6%sy, 0.0%ni, 83.5%id, 0.6%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 2057468k total, 1921664k used, 135804k free, 64636k buffers Swap: 8096664k total, 474000k used, 7622664k free, 192704k cached May be this could be a hint? -- xorg is eating up memory https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/487362 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg-server in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp