Subject: Re: X server running out of memory
To: None <mike.long@analog.com>
From: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/10/1997 19:37:46
Mike Long:

> You may want to upgrade XFree86 (or at least the server and libraries)
> to version 3.2.  Many bugs were fixed between 3.1.2 and 3.2.

Will try this ASAP.

> It may also help to use 16-color mode instead of 65536-color mode.
> That should reduce the server's memory consumption significantly.

I guess so, but the applications I use need at least 256 colors (and I'm
sick and tired of running out of colors in the palette, so I want to use
a 'true color' mode).  It's not that I'm actually running out of memory.
It's just that X doesn't want to use all of it. ;)

  -jm

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