From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 16 11:39:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA00780 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 11:39:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA00765 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 11:38:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by who.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id LAA05633 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 11:38:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA27696; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 11:15:11 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199704161815.LAA27696@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Problems with afterstep and swap To: mark@quickweb.com (Mark Mayo) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 11:15:11 -0700 (MST) Cc: mestery@cobber.cord.edu, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <19970416015251.01090@vinyl.quickweb.com> from "Mark Mayo" at Apr 16, 97 01:52:51 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Take a look and see how much memory your X-Server is using. If it's a lot, > disabling BACKING_STORE will dramitically reduce the memory size of > the X-Server. On my machine (using the Xinsde AccelX server) Netscape > was a pig with BACKING_STORE.... I turned it off, and now my Xserver > size stays consitent at a more reasonable figure. There needs to be a way to disable backing store on a per client basis. There are a lot of programs that are molasses slow without it, and unlike Netscape, aren't pigs with it. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.