Valentin Villenave <v.villen...@gmail.com> writes: > On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 6:49 PM, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> 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 _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
