Xorg very, very hungry...

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Thu May 22 15:04:19 UTC 2008


Christoph Höger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> when I activated compiz on my new R61 I was amazed how good it worked.
> 
> But today I found that with top:
> 
> 24420 root      20   0  672m 337m 9648 S  6.6 17.0   5:54.02 Xorg
> 
> Is that normal?

That depends.  Clients often ask X to cache bitmaps for them, and
they can be huge.

Andrew.




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