Xserver memory consupmtion

[Petr Fischer]

My graphics card is old (dusty) NVidia GeForce2 MX 400 (64MB).
But 628MB of virtual memory consumed by X server? This is realy big
number - my harddrive is stressed.

pf

Markku Kolkka píše v Pá 17. 06. 2005 v 00:38 +0300:
> Petr Fischer kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika perjantai, 17. 
> kesäkuuta 2005 00:15):
> > Process: /usr/X11R6/bin/X
> > Memory: 628MB
> > VM size: 628MB
> > Resident memory: 518MB
> > RSS memory: 518MB
> >
> > Why is memory consuption of X server so big?
> 
> How much video memory does your display card have? X maps the 
> video RAM to its memory space, which increases the VM size but 
> doesn't actually consume main RAM.
> 
> -- 
>  Markku Kolkka
>  markku.kolkka at iki.fi
>