Hey, John Rice wrote: > The browser would appear to be the biggest hog on the system with regard > to memory consumption. If the user has 20-30 tabs open with plenty of > graphics on them, you can see heap usage for the browser going over 100 > Meg without any problem. Ideas have been knocked around to make the > browser more efficient, from having it not store images in memory for > hidden tabs, to improving how it allocates pixmaps on the xserver and/or > having direct support in xorg for compressed pixmaps, but no one is > currently working on implementing any of these ideas.
Well, as others may already have picked up, this is one piece of sweet news - "Unix Font Performance/Rendering patches available" http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/freetype-devel/2006-05/msg00052.html Hubba hubba ;) Glynn
