Xorg very, very hungry...

Christoph Höger choeger at cs.tu-berlin.de
Thu May 22 15:22:40 UTC 2008


Am Donnerstag, den 22.05.2008, 16:03 +0100 schrieb Daniel P. Berrange:
> 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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Hi,

actual snapshot:

top:

24420 root      20   0  595m 261m  10m R 29.8 13.1   8:54.40 Xorg  

xrestop:
Pixmaps:   27596K total, Other:     178K total, All:   27774K total

Seems unlikely to me, that its all about the cache ;)

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