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).

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