RE: X becoming a memory hog

[Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc cu-portland edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jesse@cmu.edu [mailto:jesse@cmu.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 9:29 AM
> To: Gnome mailing list
> Subject: X becoming a memory hog
> 
> Hey ho.
> 
> I've noticed that X has become a memory hog on my machine -- 
> using 1/3 
> of my memory (64 meg + swap).  Is this related to gnome and/or
> enlightenment, or is the problem elsewhere?  Or am I moron and there
> is no problem (X is always a memory hog and I never noticed)?

As long as I can recall, X has been a serious memory hog.  It eats 20+ MB of
ram on my machine here.  I've got 256MB total now, so it's not a big deal, I
just don't run X on machines with less than 128 or so.  :-)
	Greg