On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 11:39:45AM -0700, Mark Vojkovich wrote: > The X-Window system is a client-server window system. The > memory for pixmap data resides on the server side instead of > the client side. If you have 8 1600x1200 32bpp root window images > that's 61 Megabytes. It resides in the server instead of the > client, unless they are shared memory pixmaps, in which case > it will be counted on both the server and client side. > > Obviously this data has to be stored someplace. It's not > like it can just disappear when you're not using it. I don't > know why it's so hard for those people to comprehend that. > If they were stored on the client side instead, people would > be complaining about KDE memory usage.
Thanks a lot, Mark. Hopefully I can help to cut down on the number of complaints, at least from Debian users. This will go into my FAQ. -- G. Branden Robinson | I am sorry, but what you have Debian GNU/Linux | mistaken for malicious intent is [EMAIL PROTECTED] | nothing more than sheer http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | incompetence! -- J. L. Rizzo II
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