> Hmm indeed. As Ted pointed out, maybe you're running with backing
> store.

I haven't disabled it, so I guess it's enabled then. ;)

> One other thing: which version of XF86 are you running? The
> 3.1.2x servers were gross hogs of memory (on my machine), whereas the
> 3.2 S3 server is pretty good.

I'm still using 3.1.2.  Is 3.2 still in beta?

> With about 10-15 windows open, one netscape, a couple of xdvi's:
> 
> USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TT  STAT STARTED       TIME COMMAND
> root       115  0.0 14.7  4108 3008 ??  Ss    9:00PM    2:22.54 /usr/X11R6/bin/X

Not bad.. maybe it's the time to upgrade to 3.2.  BTW, is it possible to
get 1152x900 at depth=16 with an S3 card with 2 MB of RAM?  (Why oh why
can't they put 4 megs of the cards... *grumble*)

  -jm


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