Xorg very, very hungry...

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Thu May 22 15:03:24 UTC 2008


On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 04:59:36PM +0200, Christoph H?ger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> when I activated compiz on my new R61 I was amazed how good it worked.
> 
> But today I found that with top:
> 
> 24420 root      20   0  672m 337m 9648 S  6.6 17.0   5:54.02 Xorg
> 
> Is that normal?

It probably has lots of pixmaps loaded on behalf of the apps you are
running. Use xrestop to monitor it

Dan
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