[OpenIndiana-discuss] X11 memory use

[Gary Mills]

On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 09:29:15AM -0800, Reginald Beardsley wrote:
> Is there anything that can be done to reduce the memory demands?
> I'm using the nvidia server.
> 
> With a single terminal window and Firefox running I have 162 MB of
> 1983 MB free.  The X server is consuming 350+ MB w/ Firefox and
> gnome consuming the rest. Having built and run X on SPARC 1+
> systems, this seems a pretty sad state of affairs.  The memory
> consumption and the performance are both much worse.

How are you measuring this?  On Solaris and illumos, free memory
should be zero.  After all, free memory is wasted memory, isn't it?

How much of that 350 MB is only on the paging device?

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