Re: swapping madness, 2.6.8-1.521smp

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 03:55:46PM -0700, Jamie Zawinski wrote:
> Not that I could tell.  But anyway, that would only show the breakdown
> within the X process, which was only around 150MB.
> 
> The really weird part here is that the memory usage reported by top does
> not add up to 1GB.

I'd expect that. X for example has virtual mappings for the video RAM so
can easily be 128Mb of resident pages that are not actually main memory.
Direct render clients can do likewise.