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From: harry@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Harry Phinney)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X server supported Backing Store problems
Message-ID: <100920310@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>
Date: 12 Mar 91 00:48:37 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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Brett E. Harper writes:
>  What exactly is the correlation between the size of the X server and the
>  allocation of pixmaps and X server supported backing store working ????

If the server cannot malloc() the space for the backing store memory
then it will refuse to honor the backing store request.  The malloc()
will fail when either the kernel's per-process data space limit is
reached, or when the system's swap space is full.  The fact that your
server grows may be an indication of a memory leak in the server, but
I suspect it instead reflects the nature of the clients running to it.
Of course, I'm biased :-)

Harry Phinney  harry@hp-pcd.cv.hp.com