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Re: [TCLUG:8117] X11 Memory Usage
> Do 'cat /proc/<pid>/status' where <pid> is the pid of your X process.
> That'll give you the straight poop, in case gtop is wrong.
>
> But 50MB is not really all that out of line, sadly. Especially when you
> consider that xlib is loaded into every X-based process that you have
> running. (The faint of heart should not be shown how much memory xclock
> requires.)
Looking through the various data that gtop spits out, I found that X was using a
32768kB chunk of memory, which I thought was really strange. Why would X pick
such a round number (in binary/hex terms, anyway), and what was it using that
memory for? Then I remembered -- I'm running a TNT2 with 32MB memory. X isn't
actually using 50+MB of memory, it's actually running closer to 20..
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