Andrew Morton wrote:

> Stefano Rivoir <s.rivoir@gts.it> wrote:
> 
>>I think I've got it. 2.4 fails to load DRI, so when X is up there is
>> memory available until the load of gnucash, the last operation. 2.6
>> loads dri and probably this eats too much too early, causing the
>> system to touch swap since the first operation after X startup.
> 
> 
> hrm, Why should loading DRI in X consume a significant amount of memory?
> 
> How much more memory is X using when DRI is loaded?

Here attached you'll find the vmstats, 2.4.21, 2.6.0 with DRI and 2.6.0
w/o DRI. 2.4.21 and 2.6.0-nodri are more or less the same...

Bye.

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Stefano RIVOIR
GTS Srl