[PLUG] Swap usage keeps increasing
Jeme A Brelin
jeme at brelin.net
Fri Mar 26 12:21:02 UTC 2004
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Geoff Burling wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Felix Lee wrote:
> > hm. my X server right now is about 24M virt, 14m rss, but I restarted
> > it today. still, I don't think mine ever gets larger than about 50M
> > virt during normal use.
I didn't read this thread from the top, but did someone explain exactly
what the "VIRT" column is showing? It ain't swap, that's for sure.
On my system, X is shown with 107m in the VIRT column, but I don't have
any swap.
jbrelin at person:~$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1032816 1018408 14408 0 160840 663760
-/+ buffers/cache: 193808 839008
Swap: 0 0 0
> The amount of resources that X uses depends on your Window Manager.
Uh... how's that work? My window manager is its own process and I can't
see how it could change the running size of the X server process.
J.
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