Re: bloatware

Mark Vojkovich <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.xfree86.forum
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 30 Mar 2003, Dejan Nikic wrote:

> I believe that this question will remain unanswered for years to come :)
> Maybe we should make a competition with some sort of award for a person
> to come up with the exact mem usage by X, and prove it of course that
> that's it :).

  This brings up the question... Why is it that top and ps include
virtual mappings that don't take up and real memory or swap?
Is it useful the way it is now?  It's certainly misleading.
For many users it's difficult to know how much memory the server
is really using because they don't know how much memory is being
mapped.  I only know the real memory usage because I know how
much memory I mapped so I can subtract it from what top reports.


			Mark.


> 
> On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 13:21, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> > On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Martin Konold wrote:
> > 
> > > In order to show that X is bloated I generally kill all apps except a single 
> > > xterm and then check the memory usage.
> > > 
> > 
> >    How are you checking that?  I do that experiment and I see reasonable
> > memory usage by the server (in the vicinity of 10 Meg).
> > 
> > 
> > 			Mark.
> > 
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