[NTLUG:Discuss] Two questions..

[Ali Naddaf]

Hi everyone. I have to questions. I decided to try running xdm on my linux
box and it was setup correctly and it works. However, how can I pass an
argument to "startx" when it is automatically called through xdm? I want my
machine to use depth=16 so I usually pass that to startx when I am calling
that manually but with xdm, I don't know how it can be done.

My second question is about memory usage. Over the weekend, I installed some
additional memory, and my machine has 96M of ram now. Top reports different
memory usage like shared memory, used, etc. Here is my question: before
running programs such as Netscape, staroffice, etc, I monitor my "used
memory" as reported by "top". Then I run those programs, and "top" obviously
shows an increase in the used memory, but when I quit these programs, memory
usage goes down but still more than what it used to be before running the
program, and this pattern keeps repeating itself. What does it really mean?
Why doesn't it go back to the value it was before? Am I interpreting what
"top" reports incorrectly?

Thanks, Ali.