Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Xorg is faster, has support for many new extensions/features not > >> present in Xsun (Xrandr - dynamic screen resize, Xv - video playback > >> acceleration, Composite, etc.) Xorg is required to use the nvidia > >> accelerated drivers or OpenGL on x86 platforms. > > > > The last time I checked, Xorg did not shrink in size after Netscape died. > > Are there plans to or did Sun already switch to libmapalloc for Xorg? > > There are no plans for libmapalloc in Xorg or Xsun. > > If you're referring to Xsun's usage of mmap'ed anonymous segments for large > pixmaps, we don't have particular plans to port that to Xorg either.
Why was that idea dropped ? > (Xsun > originally did this for pixmaps larger than 8k, we had to raise the limit to > 1mb a couple of years ago when one of the early dtrace experiments found that > doing so was causing TLB thrashing on busy Sun Ray servers.) Erm... you could simply switch to use 64k+512k pages in Xsun/Xorg... :-) ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
