Re: [Sheflug] Eating up RAM

[Nicola Richmond <n.j.richmond [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have 48MB of video memory. What seems to be happening is that memory
usage is increasing as I open more applications - which you would
expect. But when I close them, the memory isn't being released. The
gnome terminal problem is fixed but the problem has not completely gone
away.

On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 08:37, Matthew Collins wrote:
> 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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