Re: G clef changes

[David Kastrup]

Valentin Villenave <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 6:49 PM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Don't load this as a picture into firefox on X11.  It is something like
>> 10000x10000 pixels, and apparently firefox allocates a full-size
>> display-depth pixmap for that, making the server swallow more than 1.2G
>> of memory.
>> I managed to kill the firefox process by now.  It was not pretty.
>
> I had a look without any problem (well, perhaps having a 64-bit CPU
> with lots of memory helps in this regard :-).

I consider 1G of memory "lots".  And there actually is no sensible
excuse even for 10000x10000 pixels to swallow about 1G of memory in the
server.  But that's what it did.

-- 
David Kastrup