Problems with RH7.3 system performance

[Jim Bonnet]

I be you have some leak or problem with X, I don't recall ever seeing it 
that large before. What happens when you restart the X server? Does it 
release the memory it sucked up? The examples provided are't RedHat, but 
you get the idea.

Regards-
Jim

Example 1 up for 16 days:
   PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
22584 root      15   0 28596  19M  2212 S     0.7  1.9  1047m X

Example 2- up for 58 days:

   PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
17139 root       9   0 81416  18M  2168 S     0.0  3.7  1084m X




James McDonald wrote:

>  5606 root      13   0  284M  28M  7488 R     1.5  3.8  28:13 X

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