Re: Slow behaviour in KDE text fields under Xinerama

        I should also mention the memory usage. I have run Xinerama in the
past with no big issues; I had 3 heads on 19" monitors, and didn't
notice any issues. However, as it stands with my 2 heads now, Xorg's
memory usage is ridiculous!

Here's my top info:

Mem: 2073988k total, 2005404k used, 68584k free, 69988k buffers
Swap: 3004072k total, 1130604k used, 1873468k free, 393508k cached

   PID USER PR NI nFLT VIRT RES SHR Flags S %CPU %MEM TIME
COMMAND
  7741 root 16 0 941 2164m 1.2g 45m ..8.21.. R 0.6 61.3 20:17
Xorg
  7959 dylang 15 0 762 171m 102m 51m ..8.2... S 0.0 5.1 1:26
mozilla-bin
  7909 dylang 15 0 663 119m 55m 20m ..8.2.4. S 0.0 2.7 1:43
kopete
  8070 dylang 15 0 45 224m 55m 17m ..8.2... S 0.0 2.7 6:37
firefox-bin
  8013 dylang 15 0 1095 191m 45m 21m ..8.2... S 0.1 2.3 0:25
thunderbird-bin

Xorg uses 1.2gb of RAM! Mozilla, Kopete, FireFox, and Thunderbird all
together are using 257mb of RAM -- what the hell!!

When I was running triple headed, my virt res was 3456x864 24-bit.
Right now my res is 3520x1200 24-bit (about 3.7mb more of 2D composited
RAM, for 12.6mb total of video RAM required). It's not that much more,
so why is Xorg needing to hog over half my RAM?
Received on Sat Jun 24 22:01:38 2006