From kde-core-devel  Thu Apr 06 15:50:41 2000
From: Keith Packard <keithp () suse ! com>
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 15:50:41 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Pixmaps not freed?
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=95503633927671


> I'm slightly shocked seeing the output of `ps aux | grep X':
> root  22371  6.3  6.2 36788  7960  ?  S  10:37  0:01 /usr/X11R6/bin/Xwrapper

The X server size includes the PCI address space consumed by the card.  
Note that this can be larger than the amount of memory on the card.  On my 
alpha, the X server is over 4GB in size.  Kinda a shocker when you first 
see it.

Yes, it would be nice to know what the "real" size is.

-keith