designator |
03-14-2008 11:46 AM |
xorg memory usage
I'm not sure if Xorg is just cashing or using the memory, but check out my top output:
Code:
09:33:37 up 8 days, 25 min, 7 users, load average: 1.30, 1.39, 1.57
Tasks: 168 total, 1 running, 167 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 4.3%us, 0.7%sy, 0.2%ni, 93.2%id, 1.5%wa, 0.1%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 2061012k total, 1935224k used, 125788k free, 10180k buffers
Swap: 2104504k total, 1174524k used, 929980k free, 436876k cached
PID %MEM VIRT SWAP RES CODE DATA SHR nFLT nDRT S PR NI %CPU COMMAND
2782 41.3 1584m 752m 831m 1792 1.4g 12m 214k 0 S 15 0 2 Xorg
3031 41.3 1584m 752m 831m 1792 1.4g 12m 0 0 S 22 0 0 Xorg
16457 7.1 393m 250m 143m 3464 89m 137m 21k 0 S 5 -10 0 vmware-vmx
21674 5.3 474m 367m 106m 12m 216m 20m 36 0 S 15 0 0 firefox-bin
20574 4.1 454m 372m 82m 12m 199m 21m 164 0 S 15 0 0 firefox-bin
20693 3.4 112m 45m 67m 96 90m 9932 35 0 S 15 0 0 npviewer.bin
4103 2.9 575m 516m 58m 13m 314m 13m 13k 0 S 15 0 0 thunderbird-bin
4050 1.6 193m 161m 32m 48 30m 5748 2879 0 S 15 0 0 kdesktop
21960 1.4 62836 33m 27m 96 38m 10m 6 0 S 15 0 4 npviewer.bin
20428 1.1 195m 173m 22m 1876 96m 7692 143 0 S 39 19 0 beagled-helper
4116 0.9 229m 211m 17m 1876 132m 2132 4421 0 S 22 7 0 beagled
4067 0.8 155m 140m 15m 48 15m 5592 2027 0 S 15 0 0 konsole
4052 0.6 209m 197m 12m 48 12m 6444 1320 0 S 15 0 0 kicker
4133 0.4 129m 121m 8236 108 3496 5576 1089 0 S 15 0 0 opensuseupdater
I've got 2Gb of RAM and another 2Gb in swap. After a couple of days, my swap is @ 1.9Gb with pretty much all memory split between the two Xorg's. Yes, computer does run VERY slow.
I'm not running anything unusual except 2 monitors:
Suse 10.3 x64 with latest updates. No XGL or any other eye candy.
C2D 1.8Ghz
Ati x1300 256Mb
2Gb ram
250Gb HD
Any suggestions welcome.
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