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Re: [Sheflug] Eating up RAM



Think that's right,

I have the i830M graphics card on my laptop.

I've installed the rpms and the memory sapping problem has gone - still
using lots of memory though. When I logged on, without opening any
applications, 80% was being used.

This is top?

 10:39am  up 14:01,  1 user,  load average: 0.20, 0.20, 0.10
82 processes: 79 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 14.0% user,  6.5% system,  0.0% nice, 79.3% idle
Mem:   634168K av,  547276K used,   86892K free,       0K shrd,   74936K
buff
Swap: 1309288K av,       0K used, 1309288K free                  154936K
cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 4085 nicola    15   0  8656 8652  7016 S     6.9  1.3   0:16
gnome-system-mo
  961 root      15   0  150M  21M  7736 S     6.1  3.4   1:00 X
 3861 nicola    15   0  8664 8660  6780 R     2.7  1.3   0:03
gnome-terminal
    6 root      16   0     0    0     0 SW    0.3  0.0   0:50 kscand
 4083 nicola    16   0  1044 1044   836 R     0.3  0.1   0:00 top
    3 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 kapmd
    4 root      34  19     0    0     0 SWN   0.0  0.0   0:00
ksoftirqd_CPU0
    7 root      25   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 bdflush
    5 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 kswapd
    8 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 kupdated
    9 root      25   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00
mdrecoveryd
   16 root      25   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 knodemgrd
   22 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 kjournald
   77 root      24   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 khubd
  275 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 kjournald
  276 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 kjournald

On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 22:48, Barrie Bremner wrote:
> >>>>> "Craig" == Craig Andrews <craig [at] fishbot.org.uk> writes:
> 
>     Craig> On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 14:22, David Holden wrote:
>     >> This may be relevent it sounds similar.
>     >> 
>     >> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=76219
> 
>     Craig> Looks like it. For brevity, RPMs which fix it are at:
> 
>     Craig> ftp://people.redhat.com/hp/testing
> 
>     Craig> Get Xft-2.0-4.i386.rpm and (optionally)
>     Craig> Xft-devel-2.0-4.i386.rpm and install them and all should be
>     Craig> well. Note: Only suitable for RH 8.0
> 
> I wondered why I wasn't seeing this on my Redhat 8.0 box - good ol'
> Matrox graphics cards :-)
> 
> Seems that boxes using the matrox X driver are OK.
> 
> Baz.
> 
> -- 
> Barrie J. Bremner
> baz-sheflug [at] barriebremner.com      http://barriebremner.com/
> 
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