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

Thu Sep 21 13:29:14 CDT 2006

On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 02:14:25PM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> 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.

Are you sure it's X eating all that memory? I've run Linux 2.4, X,
Fluxobx and some DOS games under DOSEMU and Windows games on WINE on a
system with 128m RAM, 16m of which is used by the display, no swap,
and almost 50m of RAM disk.

Geoff.
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