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- From: davidw@vista.atmos.uiuc.edu (David Wojtowicz)
- Subject: X-server memory (was Ghostscript and paging space)
- References: <1992Sep8.142228.17380@ncsu.edu> <SEMBACH.92Sep8202943@oboe.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
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- Organization: Atmospheric Science at Univ of Ill at Urbana-Champaign
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 23:27:03 GMT
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- In article <SEMBACH.92Sep8202943@oboe.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> sembach@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Frank Sembach) writes:
- >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.
- >
-
- Our RS/6000 X-server just grows and grows until it is too big and must be
- killed. This is most noticiable with programs that create large pixmaps
- (basically anything that generates a large raster display) Even though
- the programs claim to free these pixmaps, the X server doesn't give the
- memory back to the system. Anyone else notice this?
-
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- David Wojtowicz, meteorological research programmer
- Atmospheric Sciences Dept, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- d-wojtowicz@uiuc.edu, davidw@vista.atmos.uiuc.edu
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