Am 22.08.2008 um 02:50 schrieb Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman): > On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:49:33 +0200 Tilman Baumann > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled: > >> And come on. Software is not perfect. Sometimes we have to live >> with a >> dreamteam like (old) firefox and x11. I had times when they had both > > man it gets annoying people blaming x11 for memory problems. it is > rarely a > cause. it LOOKs bad because it is allocating ram FOR client apps > (like firefox) > - when firefox asks for 300mb of pixmaps.. the memory sits in x11 - > not in > firefox.
Yea i know. This is how it should be. My X did not always free this crap. > > >> hundreds of megs virtual mem. But everything was fine because it >> all was >> just harmlessly been swaped away. I restarted them every weekend to >> not >> let it become worse. >> Not ideal, but should the system rather be unusable in this >> condition? > > we should have a userspace oom that on low-memory kills off "user > apps" (not > xserver or wm or basic required processes - just optional ones like > calculator, > addressbook, web browser etc.) when things get low - ACK > not going and adding swap. NACK _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community