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- From: pmartz@dsd.es.com (Paul Martz)
- Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
- Subject: Re: FLAME, FLAME ON X!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.235958.8386@sm.sony.co.jp>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 23:59:58 GMT
- Sender: daemon@sm.sony.co.jp (The devil himself)
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- Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, UT
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- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 23:57:41 GMT
- Message-Id: <1992Nov9.235741.25166@dsd.es.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- References: <1683@igd.fhg.de>
- Sender: xpert-request@expo.lcs.mit.edu
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- In article <1683@igd.fhg.de>, baumann@igd.fhg.de (Peter Baumann) writes:
- > [ ... ]
- >
- > Short after that, a colleague of the bad-luck guy occasionally
- > remarked, "Did you know that the X windows server never releases
- > memory space once acquired for image display? Each new image loaded
- > makes the X server address space grow until there's no more available."
- > And added, "This is a well-known bug of X". Well-known. Well...
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- Care to tell us in which vendor's X is this a bug? I've certainly
- never heard of it before.
-
- > [ ... ]
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- -paul pmartz@dsd.es.com
- Evans & Sutherland
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