Re: Heavy load of graphics

Ankit Jain
2004-10-06T06:35:39Z

thanks

this is the output

i am using redhat linux 9.0

"I know Red Hat has a lot of standard daemons (PCMCIA,
ISDN, etc) that are started by default - have you used
chkconfig or redhat-config-services to shut off
unneded services?" as u said...how to do this. i am
intrested in closing these services

thanks again

[ankit@Ankit ankit]$ cat /proc/meminfo
total: used: free: shared: buffers:
cached:
Mem: 120741888 118902784 1839104 0 1695744
74162176
Swap: 534601728 69509120 465092608
MemTotal: 117912 kB
MemFree: 1796 kB
MemShared: 0 kB
Buffers: 1656 kB
Cached: 36536 kB
SwapCached: 35888 kB
Active: 65144 kB
ActiveAnon: 37092 kB
ActiveCache: 28052 kB
Inact_dirty: 4852 kB
Inact_laundry: 6728 kB
Inact_clean: 1068 kB
Inact_target: 15556 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 117912 kB
LowFree: 1796 kB
SwapTotal: 522072 kB
SwapFree: 454192 kB
[ankit@Ankit ankit]$ ps -al
F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN TTY
TIME CMD
0 R 501 4306 4279 0 75 0 - 778 -
pts/0 00:00:00 ps
[ankit@Ankit ankit]$

--- Jim Nelson <james4765@verizon.net> wrote:
> Ankit Jain wrote:
>
> >hi
> >
> >well i am using linux 9.0 kernel 2.4 ver. 128 Mb
> RAM
> >
> >i have seen not only on this sytem but the other
> one
> >having 512 Mb RAM the most of the memory is lost or
> >taken by graphics or xserver. on my system around
> 90%
> >is occupied by the xsever and on the sys with 512
> Mb
> >RAM around 70% is occupied. how to reduce this
> load. i
> >oculd not get any article or stuff relate to this .
> if
> >we can do something in kernel or in some way reduce
> >this load while working in GUI envt
> >
> >thanks
> >
> >Ankit
> >
> >
>
> Could you please post your ps -Al, /proc/meminfo,
> and lspci output? I
> know Red Hat has a lot of standard daemons (PCMCIA,
> ISDN, etc) that are
> started by default - have you used chkconfig or
> redhat-config-services
> to shut off unneded services?
>
> The kernel also uses a lot of free memory for I/O
> caching - even my P4
> w/ 1GB RAMBUS shows 90% memory consumption in
> /proc/meminfo. Caching is
> a low-priority memory allocation - when the system
> needs memory for
> active processes, it should give the memory to the
> process.
>
> BTW, unless you are using a framebuffer kernel-level
> driver, X is
> handled almost exclusively in userland. On SPARC32
> (for example)
> framebuffers are pretty much the only way to get X
> working, but mostly,
> XFree86 and the X.org server that comes with FC2 use
> mostly user-space
> drivers.
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