Óscar Fuentes wrote:
> So in your opinion using X as a cache for 500 MB of pixmaps is dumb. I
> tend to agree, but it is reasonable to expect that when the app closes
> and the pixmaps are freed, all that memory is returned to the OS?
Depends on the malloc() implementation in your libc and how fragmented
your heap is. X does nothing special beyond free() on the memory.
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-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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