From: baron@clifton.hobby.nl (Wim `Blue Baron' van Dorst) Subject: Re: Exaggeration of X11 RAM usage (was Re: Coherent vs. Linux - a comparo) Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1993 18:18:07 GMT
James A Robinson (jimr@world.std.com) wrote:
: root@umibox.hanse.de (Bernd Meyer) writes:
: >There is one more way - and that one wasn't even artificially done. When I
: >asked ImageMagick to put 9 gifs (all about 1152x900, 8bits) together on one
: >page and output that page as postscript, the IM process alone grew to more
: >than 24 Megs, and as it insisted on having an X-Server to talk to (don't ask
: >me what for....), I really had 32MB of virtual memory used. As I only have
: >8M of RAM, the machine was thrashing away.....
: Did it finish the job?
Yes, that was my immediate thought too: Did it finish the job?
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