On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Jean-Rene Cormier wrote:
Also I noticed that X use an aweful lot of RAM, is this normal? I'm running KDE btw.
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND 3750 root 15 0 413M 131M 67704 S 0.5 54.9 5:48 0 X
"X is using an enormous amount of RAM, is it broken? Is it memory leaking?" is a very frequently asked question that comes up way too often. Rather than get into the detailed answer, which is preserved all over google, and on mailing list archives for years, the short answer is: No.
The longer answer is: Download a copy of "xrestop", findable with google, and use it to find the broken applications which are leaking pixmaps or other X resources.
More of a fedora-list question than a development related one though.