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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Pixmaps not freed?
From:       Rik Hemsley <rik () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-04-06 17:08:35
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#if Keith Packard
> 
> > 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.

If you're using Linux, what do you get in the 'VmData' field
of /proc/<pid of X>/status ?

I get a massive 19856 kB in VmSize, but only (?) 4740 in VmData,
which is a more realistic figure (if still stupidly large, considering
I'm only running a couple of rxvt's).

Rik

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