How can i decrease memory occupied by xorg ?

Thu Jul 5 02:06:31 UTC 2012

An old i386 box has only 512M RAM.

PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
 ...
 1121 sw2wolf       8  20    0   299M   128M uwait   1   5:22  0.59% opera
 1083 root          1  21    0 99444K 11544K select  0   1:28  0.00% Xorg
 1096 sw2wolf       1  20    0 25136K  2412K select  0   0:00  0.00% xterm
 1101 sw2wolf       1  20    0 10948K  1576K pause   1   0:00  0.00% csh
 1081 root          1  20    0 19448K  1564K wait    0   0:00  0.00% slim
 1124 sw2wolf       1  20    0 34376K  1496K select  1   0:00  0.00%
gam_server
 1086 sw2wolf       1  20    0 10992K  1136K select  1   0:00  0.00% dwm
 1100 sw2wolf       1  20    0 10060K  1080K select  0   0:01  0.00% tmux
  722 root          1  20    0  9612K   732K select  1   0:00  0.00% syslogd
 1098 sw2wolf       1  52    0 10060K   672K select  0   0:00  0.00% tmux
  965 root          1  20    0  9716K   660K select  0   0:05  0.00% moused
  ...

Of course, opera is a big customer of RAM which i cannot decrease its memory
usage. then can i descrease the xorg's resident memory ?

 Sincerely!

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