Re: Xfree86 memory consumption

Chuck Gelm <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.xfree86.newbie
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Naw  ;-)

Guilhem BONNEFILLE wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've just buy a new PC. This one have a:
> - Geforce4 ti 4200 64Mb
> - LCD screen
> - "only" 256 Mb RAM.
> 
> So, I'e installed a DEBIAN GNU/Linux woody (xfree86 4.1.0-16).
> 
> My problem is that the XFree86 use 256 Mb of memory. The top status is:
469 root  10  -10  268M  12M  4660 S <     0.5  4.9   0:02 XFree86
pid user pri nice  SIZE  RSS SHARE STATUS %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND

 XFree86 is only using 4.9% of available memory.
 Perhaps some swap space would be appropriate
  (swap partition or swap file).
 Let us see the output of 'free'.
;-)
HTH, Chuck

> What goes wrong?
> What can I do to have a smaller XFree86 server?
> (in a time, only 16Mb were necessary to run Linux with X)
> 
> My XF86config is attached.
> 
> Thanks for any solution reducing the memory size.
> 
>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                    Name: XF86Config-4
>    XF86Config-4    Type: unspecified type (application/octet-stream)
>                Encoding: base64
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