Re: Heavy load of graphics

Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-05T09:25:45Z

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Ankit Jain wrote:
> 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

How much memory does your video cards have? This amount is included in the
reported size of the X server, so just subtract it, and see whether the result
looks saner.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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