X server hogging memory, games swapping too much

[WindozeSux]

When I run top, I see that X is supposedly using 200-300% of my memory. I know part of this is the video board's memory, but the memory info shows that all my physical RAM is being used up, and I'm working in swap memory.

<PRE>
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
895 root 17 0 269M 265M 1604 R 10.7 213.3 10:52 X
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When I run a game such as UT, it swaps out every few seconds, causing it to be virtually unplayable.

I'm using the NVidia drivers... Is there any way I can keep X from hogging so much memory? Or is my only option to buy more RAM? (not a very attractive route at this point, since I have no money)

Thx

[Epyon]

What window manager are you using?

It shouldn't be taking up that much memory.

[WindozeSux]

I'm using Enlightenment... It's never given me this kind of trouble with memory before... I'll try something else though, just to be sure.

[WindozeSux]

I tried GNOME and AfterStep (which is supposed to be pretty lean on resources), with very little appreciable difference in memory usage from Enlightenment. It appears to really be the X server eating up most of the memory...

[Epyon]

Weird. What X server are you using? Version, and package? What video card?

[ph34r]

And how much system memory do you have?

[WindozeSux]

I'm using XFree86 4.0.1-1 w/ a GeForce 2 MX. I've got 128MB of RAM, which (I would think) would be sufficient... http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif