Xorg Mem issues....

[Ryan Escarez]

On 11/4/05, Charles Malespin <charles.malespin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>   I have been running breezy now since released and I have been
> noticing slower performance on my desktop than with hoary.  Mainly after
> I leave my computer on for a few days, Xorg starts eating alot of
> memory. I understand the caching and that its good for breezy to use
> memory, but it seems that for normal use things are really slow.  Xorg
> eats like 35-40% memory.  Switching between workstations is MUCH slower
> than with hoary, and this is even after I reboot and there is nothing
> really running except Evolution and firefox.  Any ideas why, or tweaks I
> could make?
> I have:
> P4 3 Ghz,  1 Gb ram, 2 Gb swap, ATI X300 video card  (anything else I
> can provide to help?)


how about using lightweight window manager?


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Ryan Escarez
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