[K12OSN] Client Ram

[Dan Young]

On 5/24/07, James P. Kinney III <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
> Hmm. Unless firefox is using the xserver to manage caching...
>
> I have firefox open (not running a TC environment) and xorg has ~98MB
> and firefox has ~109MB. I opened another firefox window and loaded up a
> bunch of new tabs with different web pages with graphics and my xorg
> went to 118MB and firefox went to 115MB. It looks like it is directly
> accessing the xorg process.

Firefox pixmaps are stored uncompressed in RAM by the X server.

http://primates.ximian.com/~federico/news-2005-11.html#moz-images

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Dan Young <dyoung at mesd.k12.or.us>
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