Re: Xorg: xserver using _a lot_ memory

[Andrew Haley <aph redhat com>]

Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 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 :-)
> 
> On my machine just now I see that gnome-screensaver is using 160 MB of
> X resources, which is excellent news - my screensaver is set to a
> blank screen :-(

1800000     3   27    0   50 1587   784000K     37K 784037K  3138 gnome-screensa

!

Andrew.