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Lee Forrest wrote:
>
> Now, with three full-screen xterms up at boot, and using
> reverse video, my memory footprint is about 11M. It runs
> up from 6M when I first startx, for reasons I haven't
> investigated yet. 
> 
>           total     used      free   shared      buffers
>   Mem:   126584    11376    115208        0          244
>  Swap:   128484        0    128484
> Total:   255068    11376    243692
> 
> There isn't enough in the buffers to account for the
> difference.
> 
> It increments each time I run an app like mutt.

You will get a *much* better idea of what is happening
if you execute:  top

Cheers,
Steven