I'd rather see it unused and not trying to load things from disk. Hundreds of megabytes of data in memory (or the need to reference this much) is a symptom that

I'd rather see it unused and not trying to load things from disk. Hundreds of megabytes of data in memory (or the need to reference this much) is a symptom that stuff's rotting.. The framebuffers should be the largest allocation required for a desktop environment.