X is consuming ~100 GiB of RAM(!)

[Ewen Chan]

Aivils:

The output of the ps aux command gives the following column headers:

USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND


Per the ps(1) man page:

VSZ       virtual memory size of the process in KiB
          (1024-byte units).  Device mappings are
          currently excluded; this is subject to change.
          (alias *vsize*).


RSS       resident set size, the non-swapped physical
          memory that a task has used (in kiloBytes).
          (alias *rssize*, *rsz*).


(Source: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/ps.1.html)

Therefore; as it was previously stated, the size is given in kiB, not B,
which means that the total memory consumed by X is still approximately 100
GiB (104332316 kiB).


Thanks.


Sincerely,


Ewen

On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 2:28 AM, <aivils at latnet.lv> wrote:

> Hi,
> Don't worry. Count the digits. 100Mb consuming is pretty ordinary nowadays.
> They are not Gigabytes.
>
>
> Ewen Chan @ 2017-12-05 20:14 rakstīja:
>
> ewen at aes4:~> date
>> Tue Dec 5 05:08:28 EST 2017
>> ewen at aes4:~> ps aux | grep Xorg
>> root 2245 7.7 79.0 271100160 104332316 tty7 Ssl+ Nov25 1078:19
>> /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -background none -verbose -auth /run/gdm/aut
>> h-for-gdm-9L7Ckz/database -seat seat0 -nolisten tcp vt7
>> ewen 11769 0.0 0.0 10500 944 pts/1 R+ 05:08 0:00 grep --color=auto
>> Xorg
>>
>>
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