Re: bloatware

Martin Konold <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.xfree86.forum
Organization erfrakon
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Am Sonntag, 30. März 2003 20:32 schrieb [email protected]:

Hi Jim,

> Remember folks, please, that we developed X11 on Vax 11/750's with 2 meg of
> RAM.

Yes, but this is not the case with XFree86-4.x

> Various stuff has bloated over the years, but it is generally on the
> applications side.  Sometimes you think the X server is bloating, when it
> is really that applications have a pixmap leak, for example. 

In order to show that X is bloated I generally kill all apps except a single 
xterm and then check the memory usage.

Regards,
-- martin

Dipl.-Phys. Martin Konold

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