[geeks] X memory usage in 7.x, some software improves with time

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

I just upgrade to X11R7 two days ago.

Normally X would hit 270MB to start, and grow from there, particularly
when running games, photo editing, and OpenGL acceleration on the
desktop.

7.x is quite different.

My startup hit is about 30MB, and after 24 hours I'm just under 80MB.
In that period I played a couple of OpenGL games, did some photo
editing, and I'm running KDE with XRender enabled.

X seems to not allocate near as much upon startup as it did previously,
and it appears to be calling unmap() more aggressively to reduce
long-term memory footprint.

I'd be interested in knowing if similar improvements can be had by
moving to X11R7 on non-PC hardware.

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