KDE 3.5.0 seems much chubbier than 3.4.2

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Thursday 02 February 2006 17:41, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-Feb-02 09:52:22 +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> >Also, xrestop shows X using 120Mb of pixmaps.
> >X's size is 315M, and I have a 64Mb video card.
> >
> >64 + 120 = 184
> >315 - 184 = 131
> >
> >ie 131Mb of space that X is using but no obvious reason..
>
> There's a lot more to X than the video memory and pixmaps.

Sure, but 131Mb is a lot of "other".

> In my case (this is X.org 6.9.0 on 6-stable/amd64 but the principle is
> the same), I have 32MB video RAM, 28MB pixmaps and ps report that X
> is using 78MB - a difference of 18M.
>
> If I look at the process memory map (see procfs(5)), the breakdown is:
> 38MB  vnode backed (mostly shared libraries)
> 32MB  device (video memory)
>  6.75MB swap + default (malloc'd space, stack etc)
>
> This suggests that X is storing a lot of pixmaps in video RAM (for
> efficiency).

[inchoate 18:12] ~ >ps -axw| grep  bin/X
  826  ??  S     66:52.15 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp :0 -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-lKynIa (Xorg)
[inchoate 18:12] ~ >sudo cat /proc/826/map
cat: /proc/826/map: File too large

Broken in -current?

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