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WMD:

--- Quote ---Xorg alone uses 150MB of memory.
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Does it, though?  This question may be beneath you, but did you take into account these numbers?  (disclaimer: X is bloated either way)

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toadlife:

--- Quote from: WMD ---Does it, though? This question may be beneath you, but did you take into account these numbers? (disclaimer: X is bloated either way)
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I'll have a look when I get home. You may be right - I might have been of not been paying attention and talking out of my ass there. :p

toadlife:
Nope. X takes 150megs of memory allright. Perhaps BSD handles memory differently from Linux?

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WMD:
Possibly.  Here's my same line from good ol' top.  (I don't know why it says root.  It isn't :confused: )

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toadlife:
X must be run as root because it directly accesses your video hardware. Here is an explanation from the good ole' FreeBSD handbook.

Only recently did the X port in FreeBSD even bother to install the x11 wrapper for you. When I first started using BSD a little over a year ago, I installed X, and upon trying to run it, I got a big fat error message telling me I had to be root to run Xfree86. Needless to say, I learned something new that day.:D

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