Subject: Re: What's going on here?
To: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
From: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/26/1997 18:34:19
Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca> writes:

> Hm. I guess mine must be really improperly implemented, then,
> because the Mach 32 X server on my system is currently eating less
> than 5 MB of RAM.  This is with fvwm, eight xterms, a couple of
> instances of Netscape, and a few little twidly utilities (xconsole,
> xclock, xload, etc.)

What would be _really_ nice is if X was able to actually return free()'d
data to the system.

Has anyone tried linking an X server against a malloc that uses mmap()
to allocate space, and munmap() to free it?

--Michael