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- From: klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- Subject: Re: Xwst3d window server runs out of memory
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.165724.28538@PA.dec.com>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 16:57:24 GMT
- References: <1992Aug31.064826.1316@cv.ruu.nl> <21301@optima.cs.arizona.edu> <1992Aug31.134838.13745@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- Organization: DEC Western Software Laboratory
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- |> The problem in this configuration is that programs that work fine on any
- |> regular Xws display fail with an X window error BadAlloc on the Xwst3d
- |> when it is tried to load larger sized images (> 1k x 1k) into pixmaps.
- |> The server apparently runs out of resources (data memory?). Smaller
- |> images work fine.
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- It is common for X servers supporting graphics accelerators to limit pixmaps
- to the size of the screen (root window).
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- Ken Lee
- DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
- Internet: klee@wsl.dec.com
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