[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [Patch] New city dialog (8a)

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 02:53:46PM +0200, Christian Knoke wrote:
> Hhm. While I'm writing this and playing with the dialog, X eats up
> all my memory:
> 
> ----------------
> USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
> root       497  3.7 29.8 99616 28432 ?       S    11:22   7:13 
> /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0
> chris      637  2.9 14.7 28752 14100 ?       S    11:24   5:43 kmail -caption 
> KMail ...
> chris     4373  0.1  2.6  6572 2532 pts/2    S    12:17   0:14 civserver -f 
> hard12.sav.gz
> chris     4374  1.5  5.6  9420 5404 ?        S    12:17   2:12 civclient 
> -tiles trident
> chris     4440  0.3  6.5  8272 6208 ?        S    13:04   0:21 civclient 
> -tiles trident
> chris     4566  2.0 13.2 21436 12612 ?       S    14:29   0:07 
> /opt/netscape/netscape 
> chris     4580  0.0  3.8 16828 3628 ?        S    14:29   0:00 (dns helper)
> ----------------
> 
> Never seen this before. Just opening and switching a few cities
> makes VSZ grow from 99616 to 104380.

This is normal. The X server just caches some stuff:

  PID USER     TTY       NI SWAP  RSS  SIZE WCHAN     STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME 
COMMAND
  829 root     ?          0    0  61M 62860 c012da25 S     0.9  9.7 115:50 X

I would instead be worried about an email client which needs 28MB.

        Raimar

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