Xorg server high ram usage

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b3tameche
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Xorg server high ram usage

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System:
  Kernel: 5.15.0-91-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.4.0
    Desktop: Xfce 4.18.1 Distro: Linux Mint 21.2 Victoria
    base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Pavilion Laptop 15-cs3xxx
    v: Type1ProductConfigId serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: HP model: 86E2 v: 95.36 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Insyde
    v: F.16 date: 04/28/2022
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: Intel Core i5-1035G1 bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Ice Lake rev: 5 cache: L1: 320 KiB L2: 2 MiB L3: 6 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1291 high: 1301 min/max: 400/3600 cores: 1: 1230
    2: 1300 3: 1300 4: 1300 5: 1301 6: 1300 7: 1300 8: 1300 bogomips: 19046
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Iris Plus Graphics G1 vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915
    v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP108M [GeForce MX250] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: nvidia v: 535.129.03 bus-ID: 06:00.0
  Device-3: Cheng Uei Precision Industry (Foxlink) HP Wide Vision HD
    Integrated Webcam
    type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-3:2
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 driver: X:
    loaded: modesetting,nvidia unloaded: fbdev,nouveau,vesa gpu: i915
    resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics (ICL GT1)
    v: 4.6 Mesa 23.0.4-0ubuntu1~22.04.1 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Ice Lake-LP Smart Sound Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-91-generic running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: rtw_8821ce v: N/A port: 5000
    bus-ID: 0b:00.0
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 4000 bus-ID: 10:00.0
  IF: eno1 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth 4.2 Adapter type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 1-10:3
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter>
    bt-v: 2.1 lmp-v: 4.2
RAID:
  Hardware-1: Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci
    v: 3.0 bus-ID: 00:17.0
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 47.71 GiB (20.0%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: MZVLQ256HAJD-000H1
    size: 238.47 GiB temp: 32.9 C
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 120.74 GiB used: 45.92 GiB (38.0%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p6
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 96 MiB used: 72.7 MiB (75.8%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 3.73 GiB used: 1.72 GiB (46.0%)
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p7
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 53.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 287 Uptime: 23m Memory: 7.54 GiB used: 6.17 GiB (81.9%)
  Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 11.4.0 Packages: 2471 Shell: fish
  v: 3.6.4 inxi: 3.3.13
xrestop:

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xrestop - Display: localhost
          Monitoring 39 clients. XErrors: 0
          Pixmaps:  968858K total, Other:      65K total, All:  968924K total

res-base Wins  GCs Fnts Pxms Misc   Pxm mem  Other   Total   PID Identifier    
3600000     4    2    0    3   19   129608K    600B 129608K  1981 wrapper-2.0
0e00000    10    3    0    2   92   129604K      2K 129607K  1697 xfce4-panel
2c00000     7    3    0    2   55   129604K      1K 129605K  1938 wrapper-2.0
3a00000     4    2    0    1   42   129600K      1K 129601K  1983 wrapper-2.0
3000000     5    2    0    1   22   129600K    696B 129600K  1969 wrapper-2.0
3200000     4    2    0    1   18   129600K    576B 129600K  1970 wrapper-2.0
2e00000     4    2    0    1   18   129600K    576B 129600K  1975 wrapper-2.0
0800000   123    4    1  246  805    50838K     22K  50861K  1674 xfwm4
0c00000     5    4    0   65   48     8599K      1K   8600K  1706 Desktop
4600000    19    9    1   10   61     1402K      3K   1405K  2777 Messenger �~@~T Mozilla Firefox
1200000     7    3    1    2  169      256K      5K    261K  1701 Downloads - Thunar
4400000    11    3    0    2   84      256K      2K    258K  2745 Terminal
4a00000     4    2    0    2   31      256K    888B    256K  6250 Screenshot
3e00000     4    3    1    2   29       22K      1K     24K  2442 NVIDIA Settings
4000000     2    1    0    3   11       12K    336B     12K  2126 mintUpdate.py
0000000     2    0    2    0  153        0B      5K      5K   ?   <unknown>
0a00000     3    1    0    0  230        0B      5K      5K  1691 xfsettingsd
2800000     2    1    0    0  199        0B      4K      4K  1763 xfce4-volumed
1a00000     2    2    0    0   33        4B    888B    892B  1724 xfce4-notifyd
1e00000     1    1    0    0   18        0B    480B    480B  1745 xfce4-power-manager
2400000     2    1    0    0   15        0B    432B    432B  1749 light-locker
2000000     2    1    0    0   12        0B    360B    360B  1717 tray.py
1c00000     2    1    0    0   12        0B    360B    360B  1740 NetworkManager Applet
4800000     1    1    0    0    9        0B    264B    264B  2900 xdg-desktop-portal-gtk
3c00000     1    1    0    0    9        0B    264B    264B  2104 blueman-tray
3400000     1    1    0    0    9        0B    264B    264B  1777 evolution-alarm-notify
2600000     1    1    0    0    9        0B    264B    264B  1716 nvidia-prime
2200000     1    1    0    0    9        0B    264B    264B  1718 blueman-applet
1800000     1    1    0    0    9        0B    264B    264B  1738 polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
0400000     1    1    0    0    9        0B    264B    264B  1402 xfce4-session
4200000     0    1    0    0    8        0B    216B    216B   ?   <unknown>
4c00000     1    1    0    0    1        0B     72B     72B   ?   xrestop
0600000     0    1    0    0    2        0B     72B     72B   ?   <unknown>
1600000     0    1    0    0    1        0B     48B     48B   ?   <unknown>
3800000     0    1    0    0    0        0B     24B     24B   ?   <unknown>
2a00000     0    1    0    0    0        0B     24B     24B   ?   <unknown>
1400000     0    1    0    0    0        0B     24B     24B   ?   <unknown>
1000000     0    1    0    0    0        0B     24B     24B   ?   <unknown>
0200000     0    0    0    0    0        0B      0B      0B   ?   <unknown>
I don't know why, but Xorg uses too much memory on fresh boot. what could be an issue?
Hoser Rob
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Re: Xorg server high ram usage

Post by Hoser Rob »

I would go into update manager > kernel > view kernels and install the newest 6.2 kernel. Then reboot. That's a pretty new machine.
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong - H. L. Mencken
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