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... :-)

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Roland

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