Re: Some hard numbers on XFree86 memory usage (and no, not ps/top)

On Sat, 19 Apr 2003, Ivan Todoroski wrote:

> One can probably further argue that not all of this memory is selfishly used
> by the X server, that much of it is allocated on behalf of X clients for
> pixmaps and what-not, but exactly how much is allocated on behalf, and whether
> the memory is managed in the most efficient manner (sharing of some stuff
> between clients etc), I cannot tell since I know next to nothing about XFree86
> internals.

    Most of that will be on behalf of the client.  If you are running
XFree86 4.3, run:

    http://www.xfree86.org/~mvojkovi/restest.c 

It will tell you how many bytes worth of pixmaps each client has.
There are other things allocated on behalf of the clients that
can't be read from the X-Resource extension (yet), but the Pixmaps
are by far the largest component. 


			Mark.