Re: [Sheflug] Eating up RAM

[Matthew Collins <matthew [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 10:39:52AM +0000, Nicola Richmond wrote:
> 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
> 

There is no swap being used, so that looks OK.

The memory usage for X usually includes the amount of video memory on
the card, as X mmaps it into it's process space so it can use it. This
dosn't take away from your system memory as it's your video memory. Has
you video card got 128MB of memory in it by any chance?

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