Memory usage problems with X.org on ProSavage DDR

[François-Denis Gonthier]

"milnser43200 at yahoo.com" <milnser43200 at yahoo.com> writes:

> I am using X.org on a s3 Prosavage video adapter, using video driver
> savage. I have been having significant problems with the vast
> amounts of memory that are being consumed, living very little space
> left for other applications. For instance, here is the readout from
> top that shows what i am talking about: 1 96 0 302M 20304K select
> 24.0H 3.61% Xorg
>
> This is really a huge problem has a have a limited amount of memory
> and disk space and because of this massive amount of memory
> consumed, other applications are running out of memory and crashing.
>
> I know X.org should probably not be using this much memory and there
> is a bug somewhere in the software that is doing this. If you need
> any logs or anything please ask.

This is lacking a bit of data.

Do you have GNOME, FireFox, KDE, anything, running when you took that
sample?

X itself doesn't need much memory.  The applications interacting with
the X server make it allocate more memory.

So please if you think X is leaking or overconsuming memory, bring
forward more informations.

F-D