Re: restoring text mode after x server crash

[SL Baur <steve@example.com>]

Tobias Diedrich <ranma@example.com> writes in tlug@example.com:

> Thomas O'Dowd wrote:
>> ie, after only 6 days of uptime...
>> 
>> PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
>> 897 root       9   0  244M 229M 21748 S     0.7 45.8 474:43 X
>> 
>> Now that's insane, or is it?

> Interesting...
> I've switched to the nvidia driver yesterday and it's like this 
> (after only a few hours running the screensaver...):
>   PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
> 25800 root       6 -10  169M 2800  2612 S <   0.1  2.2  26:04 XFree86

> Physical mem is 128M.

Some of the video drivers mmap the video card memory.  That's what you're
seeing.  For enlightenment cat /proc/897/maps and /proc/25800/maps.