Re: SV: READ THIS; Debian XFree86 4.0.1 mini-FAQ
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 10:36:02AM -0600, Joshua Shagam wrote:
> > How recent are we talking about here? I never noticed any problem with
> > phase2v8, but in the past few days I haven't been running much X applications
> > apart from WindowMaker, xpdf, emacs, xterm and xscreensaver, and it has never
> > occured to me before to wonder how much any of these rely on shared memory.
>
> Not at all. Shm is used msotly for things which do a lot of blitting, like
> games and Rasterman's over-glitzy under-functional piles of code.
Well, anything which uses MIT-SHM.
In fact, if I'm not much mistaken, it's imlib which uses SHM (by
default, can be turned off), so some versions of gnome will trigger
the memory leaks too.
Jules
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