[plug] XFree86 - ridiculous memory consumption

Craig Ringer craig at postnewspapers.com.au
Thu Jan 23 11:51:28 WST 2003


> Depends on the card. I had a 16MB Banshee at one stage which "used 60MB of 
> RAM", and what was really happening was that the 16MB of card memory was 
> being mapped into RAM at three places to get access to it in 3 different 
> ways, so the process was using 12MB plus 3 images of the card.

In that case, the Total memory use should be high but I thought the RSS 
should still be at 12mb (the actual physical RAM in use). It certainly 
shouldn't "use" real RAM. Or have I misunderstood something?




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