[K12OSN] Client Ram

Dan Young dyoung at mesd.k12.or.us
Thu May 24 22:41:50 UTC 2007


On 5/24/07, Dan Young <dyoung at mesd.k12.or.us> wrote:
> 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.

Which, in the X parlance, means on the thin client.

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