Dave wrote:
On 10/20/05, William Warren hescominsoon@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com wrote:
18 megs of swap with a gig installed is nothing significant. As far as cached memory not being used. If xorg is using 750 megs of ram there's not a whole bunch left for a file cache after the other applications are also allocated.
The xorg memory consumtion is a different issue, I've had that problem for awile now, thats why I put in another 512 of ram so I can reboot twice a month instead of every weekend.
I'm curious if something has changed in the way memory is managed, I was under the impression that there should be very little free memory since the cache and buffers should be using it.
Sounds like a memory leak, not unheard of in X servers. SGI has had some famous ones over the years :-). Also not uncommon given the change from XFree86 to Xorg (different team as I understood it).