swapping madness, 2.6.8-1.521smp

[Jamie Zawinski]

Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "JZ" == Jamie Zawinski <jwz at jwz.org> writes:
> 
> JZ> If I kill X, everything settles down and goes back to normal; so
> JZ> that suggests that the culprit is the X server or some client of
> JZ> it.  But I can't tell which.
> 
> Does xrestop give you any useful information?

Not that I could tell.  But anyway, that would only show the breakdown
within the X process, which was only around 150MB.

The really weird part here is that the memory usage reported by top does
not add up to 1GB.

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