Re: XFree dramatic memory leak?
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 07:54, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 01:47, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 06:52, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> > >
> > > I just realized that the daily updatedb run caused this 1G Ti 15"
> > > powerbook to swap (with just some apps open under X).
> >
> > BTW, 2.6 kernels handle this much better than 2.4 kernels. :)
>
> But these don't happen to boot already on ppc machines right ?
But sure they do. :) I'm using the linuxppc-2.5 tree via rsync, there's
also linuxppc-2.5-benh if you don't mind using bk. Beware that there are
still many minor problems, but the only major problem for me is that
sleep doesn't work with the linuxppc-2.5 tree yet.
You should probably ask the following questions on an XFree86 mailing
list, but I'll do my best to answer some nonetheless.
> BTW, is there a way to limit the movement of the mouse cursor, i.e. I
> want to limit it when I am disconnected from the second head to :0 and
> then when reconnected allow the full width of :0 and :1 ?
There's no possibility to do this in the server yet, but it might be
possible to achieve this with a client to some extent.
> Another BTW: I just realized that I am unable to work in any Xinerama
> setup ... I really need to desktops that are separate from each other,
> such that I can switch workspaces on one desktop while the other does
> not change (still shows email etc...) ... So I wonder what the plans in
> Xfree are... will it be possible to somehow remove the window on :1 and
> put it on :0 ?
Not transparently to clients, as non-Xinerama heads are basically
separate displays, but as I said earlier, GTK+ as of version 2.2 can do
this, though unfortunately there's no app-independent support for it
yet, see e.g.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/wm-spec-list/2003-May/msg00029.html,
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2002-November/msg00103.html and http://www.spinics.net/lists/xf-xpert/msg04877.html .
> Also since the xrandr stuff I wonder whether there are plans about
> dynamic head addons ...
I'm not aware of such plans, and I doubt it could happen before 5.x in
any event. (Note that this probably isn't related to RandR at all)
--
Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
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