Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

[Wayne Gemmell <wayneg@ananzi.co.za>]

> This doesn't look as if soffice.bin (StarOffice?) was the culprit, it's
> rather a problem with CUPS (close to 60% memory used by this process
> alone). Are you trying to print some color pictures on an inkjet printer?
> That's a pretty memory consuming task since the picture would be rasterized
> by the CPU and then sent to the printer in small chunks. With those
> high-res color printers, there's a whole lot of small pixels to be stored.

Hi, yes soffice.bin is open office. Cups in this instance is doning nothing 
but waiting for jobs...