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[Mike McCarty]

William John Murray wrote:
>   Mike's memory usage is:
> On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 07:38 -0500, fedora-list-request at redhat.com wrote:
> 
>>Mem:    248088k total,   240544k used,     7544k free,    18188k
>>buffers
>>Swap:   524120k total,   104304k used,   419816k free,    59040k
>>cached
>> 
>>
>>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>>  3362 jmccarty  15   0  110m  43m  18m S  1.3 18.0   8:43.37 
>>thunderbird-bin
>>  4159 root      15   0  178m  32m 4904 S  7.0 13.4 992:47.66 X
>>  5214 jmccarty  16   0 68496  20m  13m S  0.0  8.6   0:01.91
>>mozilla-bin
>>
> 
> 
> I have learned a lot reading comments on this, so can I add that
> for my machines (512Mb and 1Gb) Xorg is less than half the size. 
> 
>  2285 root      18   0 74316  18m 7972 R 60.8  3.6   1:20.31 Xorg
> 10335 murray    15   0  219m  37m  19m S 16.9  7.5   0:49.92 evolution
> 
> This is for 1600 by 1200, millions of colours, double bffered.
> Isn't the X usage rather high?

Wait a minute. You have a 512MB RAM machine and 7.5%. I have a
256MB RAM machine and 13.4% usage. That's the same amount of RAM.

Mike
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