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- From: sembach@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Frank Sembach)
- Subject: Re: Ghostscript and paging space
- In-Reply-To: nsysdbj@straylight.acs.ncsu.edu's message of Tue, 8 Sep 1992 14:22:28 GMT
- Message-ID: <SEMBACH.92Sep8202943@oboe.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
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- Organization: Informatik, Univ. Stuttgart. W.Germany
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- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 19:29:43 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep8.142228.17380@ncsu.edu> nsysdbj@straylight.acs.ncsu.edu (David Joyner) writes:
-
- Has anyone noticed strange behavior with the -r switch in
- Ghostscript??? I was playing around with it today and I ran gs -r450
- on a postscript file (meaning render at 450 dpi). The X server
- started sucking up memory like a dry sponge and the system eventually
- when down when X had about 2/3 of the paging space (about 41Mb out of
- 64Mb).
- [...]
-
- Ghostscript only got as far as "Initializing...". I'm running version
- 2.5. Just curious to see if anyone has noticed this...
-
- We have the same problem with Ghostscript versions 2.4.1 and 2.5. The
- problem does not seem to be the -r switch, a similar behaviour can be
- seen without: The virtual memory size of the X-server is growing
- monotonously while viewing a multipage Postscript document using
- several fonts. The X-server size will never shrink afterwards. The
- next run of Ghostscript on some document will increase the X-server
- size further...
-
- The problem is not with Ghostsript running on RS/6000 as it occurs as
- well when Ghostscript is running on another (non-RS/6000) machine, but
- displaying on an RS/6000 X-server. (I am not sure about the other way
- round.)
-
- If anybody has a solution to this problem, I would be very interested.
-
- Greetings Frank
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