On Sat, 25 Apr 1998 14:00:53 -0000 (GMT) 
 jiho@postal.c-zone.net wrote:

 >               exited  execed  exited  execed  exited
 >               ------  ------  ------  ------  ------
 >       wired:   2332K   2356K   2332K   2356K   2332K
 >      active:   7972K   9604K   8292K   9924K   8616K
 >    inactive:   1376K    988K   1376K    988K   1376K
 >        free:  11456K  10188K  11136K   9868K  10812K
 > 
 > The X server gains 8K in its RSS across each interation.  No other programs
 > undergo any change.  The net result is that about 320K (give or take a 4K page)

...I believe chuck posted an analysis of a problem like this a while ago...

Basically, the problem seemed to be evil applications and the way they
handle colors... their behavior was causing the X server to allocate
and fragment memory...

If you kill the X server, and restart, is your memory reclaimed?

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