Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Mar 1998 02:07:22 -0800 (PST) | From | Gerhard Mack <> | Subject | Re: GGI Project Unhappy On Linux |
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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
-- Gerhard Mack gmack@imag.net innerfire@starchat.net
As a computer I find your faith in technology amusing.
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