Memory usage of Catalyst

[RealNC]

Is there some way to see how much RAM fglrx is using? Something here eats RAM like peanuts and it's something not shown by ps. free -m says:

total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 5965 4267 1697 0 966 1514
-/+ buffers/cache: 1786 4179
Swap: 917 0 917


That is 1786MB when taking out cache and buffers. However, adding up all the programs shown by ps or KDE's system monitor, it's only about 300MB. I suspect Catalyst to eat the remaining 1.5GB :D

Any hints to see what's going on?

[PuckPoltergeist]

What says top with M?

[RealNC]

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
2662 root 20 0 650m 193m 25m S 2 3.2 18:21.49 X

[PuckPoltergeist]

That seems to be much (RES), if this is direct after starting X. But it does not explain your memory consumption. If there is no other process shown in top, I suspect a kernel thread. Those are not shown in top, AFAIK. It's possible, that fglrx is responsible for this.

[RealNC]

Yeah, the problem is I don't know of a way to see where the memory goes :P

The X server btw was running for about 7 hours. It only uses about 70MB right at startup and then increases over time. Right now it increased from 193m from my previous post to 213m. But at some point it stabilizes and doesn't increase anymore and in some occasions actually decreases. I suppose X is keeping internal buffers/cache.