From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Terrence Martin Subject: Re: Heavy load of graphics Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 09:25:37 -0700 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <4162CB01.1040200@physics.ucsd.edu> References: <20041005050100.76032.qmail@web52902.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20041005050100.76032.qmail@web52902.mail.yahoo.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Ankit Jain Cc: newbie 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 > >________________________________________________________________________ >Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" >your friends today! Download Messenger Now >http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > > Can you post the following The output of the free command # free As well as the top 10 or so processes copied from top? Run top # top Then hit M (capital M) to sort by memory, Then past the results to the email.. It is a lot easier to know what is going on if everyone can see the actual memory information. For example $ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 1550128 1515028 35100 0 160944 801932 -/+ buffers/cache: 552152 997976 Swap: 2449904 19928 2429976 Output of top, sorted by memory. 19725 tmartin 15 0 145M 145M 26196 S 2.7 9.5 20:17 0 mozilla-bin 9925 root 15 0 135M 66M 8472 S 3.5 4.3 270:54 0 X 17665 tmartin 15 0 20912 20M 16488 S 0.0 1.3 0:00 0 kdeinit 17632 tmartin 15 0 17260 16M 14352 S 0.1 1.1 2:40 0 kdeinit 17659 tmartin 15 0 15332 14M 12684 S 0.0 0.9 0:07 0 kdeinit 17657 tmartin 15 0 14916 14M 12564 S 0.0 0.9 0:00 0 kdeinit 23837 tmartin 15 0 14860 14M 12676 S 0.0 0.9 0:00 0 kdeinit 19561 tmartin 15 0 14792 14M 12584 S 0.0 0.9 0:00 0 kdeinit 19638 tmartin 15 0 14652 14M 12560 S 0.0 0.9 0:00 0 kdeinit 17630 tmartin 15 0 14568 14M 12748 S 0.0 0.9 0:02 0 kdeinit In my case I am in good shape. I am not using much swap, X is using 133MB of RAM but only 66MB are actually resident. That is there is only 66MB in physical memory, even though the memory size is 135MB. Mozilla on the other hand has asked for 145MB of RAM and it is using all of it. One way to reduce the Xwindows RAM footprint a bit is to run a much smaller window manager. For example instead of the heavier Gnome or KDE run XFCE. The current version of Fedora Redhat supports this I believe. Terrence - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs