Re: GGI Project Unhappy On Linux

Gerhard Mack (gmack@imag.net)
Sat, 28 Mar 1998 02:07:22 -0800 (PST)

On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Marek Habersack wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Gerhard Mack wrote:
>
> > > > the system is a Pentium 120
> > > > Problems showed up with 16 mb ram
> > > > the chipset is intel.
> > > With S3 ViRGE DX 2MB, AMD K6 166, 64MB RAM and the Triton chipset I can switch
> > > X -> text -> X as many times as I want and no crash occurs. The only thing
> > > that crashes is Netscape Communicator 4.04 ;-)
> >
> > That's with 64 mb ram try it with 16, the amount of ram seems to make a
> > diffrence.
> Perhaps it has somethig to do with the fact that X allocates a buffer ==video
> mem size to hold the screen data? If the switches are fast enough, the server
> might not be able to free the previous buffer before it allocates a new one -
> and it can reuse the space because it didn't restore the previous content of
> the screen?

The actuall complaint I got was from a series of switches ofver 5- 15
minutes, doing it quickly just makes it happen sooner. :(

Gerhard

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Gerhard Mack
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As a computer I find your faith in technology amusing. 




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