On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 01:32:34PM -0600, Scott Wunsch wrote:
> On Sat, 24-Jun-2006 at 22:01:38 -0600, Dylan Griffiths wrote:
>
> > 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!
>
> Bear in mind that X.org's apparent RAM usage will include all the video
> RAM on your video card. It can actaully appear to be using more RAM
> than you have :-). I'm not sure how dual-head affects that, but I could
> see it showing the full video RAM for each head, or something silly like
> that.
I believe the numbers top reports is system memory (physical and virtual),
not video memory) used by a process. I don't see why X.org would need that
much system memory ... either it's reserving it and not using it (very
dumb) or it's mirroring everything in video memory in main memory
(incredibly dumb).
Received on Mon Jun 26 14:21:01 2006
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