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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Stefano Rivoir <s.rivoir@gts.it> wrote:
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> 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?