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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!199.94.215.18!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!news-koe1.dfn.de!news-han1.dfn.de!news-ham1.dfn.de!news-ber1.dfn.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: netscape and freebsd (scrolling problem) Date: 5 Jan 1997 01:06:05 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 16 Message-ID: <5amupt$q75@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <874th3qz7v.fsf@monty.cs.apana.org.au> <32C7E99A.446B9B3D@psa.pencom.com> <32ce6367.0@finesse.isdn.uni-konstanz.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33637 Pascal.Gienger@uni-konstanz.de (Pascal Gienger) wrote: > Netscape heavily uses backing store on the server to be able to rapidly > redisplay loaded images (that's the reason your XServer-Process grabs so much > RAM when running Netscape) and to be able to scroll smoothly. > So it must be a bug with backing store and the XFree-Server. Interesting then that it only happens if backing store is enabled on a ``when mapped'' base in the server. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)