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SubjectRe: GGI Project Unhappy On Linux
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Gerhard Mack wrote:

> > > the system is a Pentium 120
> > > Problems showed up with 16 mb ram
> > > the chipset is intel.
> > With S3 ViRGE DX 2MB, AMD K6 166, 64MB RAM and the Triton chipset I can switch
> > X -> text -> X as many times as I want and no crash occurs. The only thing
> > that crashes is Netscape Communicator 4.04 ;-)
>
> That's with 64 mb ram try it with 16, the amount of ram seems to make a
> diffrence.
Perhaps it has somethig to do with the fact that X allocates a buffer ==video
mem size to hold the screen data? If the switches are fast enough, the server
might not be able to free the previous buffer before it allocates a new one -
and it can reuse the space because it didn't restore the previous content of
the screen?

best wishes, marek
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