Xorg: xserver using _a lot_ memory

Christoph Höger choeger at cs.tu-berlin.de
Fri Jan 16 14:13:02 UTC 2009


Am Freitag, den 16.01.2009, 14:05 +0000 schrieb Richard W.M. Jones:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 01:13:54PM +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
> > X caches memory on behalf of its clients.  Kill them, one by one,
> and you'll
> > probably find where the memory is going.
> 
> Or use xrestop, the non-destructive alternative :-)

What I already did. Both suggestions. My top showed that memory usage
when xrestop showed no hotspots and nearly all apps were gone (ok, I did
not kill gnome itself ;))


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