Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 11:15:11 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: mark@quickweb.com (Mark Mayo) Cc: mestery@cobber.cord.edu, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with afterstep and swap Message-ID: <199704161815.LAA27696@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <19970416015251.01090@vinyl.quickweb.com> from "Mark Mayo" at Apr 16, 97 01:52:51 am
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> Take a look and see how much memory your X-Server is using. If it's a lot, > disabling BACKING_STORE will dramitically reduce the memory size of > the X-Server. On my machine (using the Xinsde AccelX server) Netscape > was a pig with BACKING_STORE.... I turned it off, and now my Xserver > size stays consitent at a more reasonable figure. There needs to be a way to disable backing store on a per client basis. There are a lot of programs that are molasses slow without it, and unlike Netscape, aren't pigs with it. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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