If it helps you assess your situation at all, I don't use Xinerama, but
I am currently running a dual monitor configuration with 2 LCDs. One is
a 1280x1024 screen, and the other is a 1600x1024 screen. Xorg is
currently using about 25MB of RAM.
R
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!
>
> 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?
>
>
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> in it."
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Received on Tue Jun 27 03:17:57 2006
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