Le Monday 19 November 2007 20:11:41 Jim Kronebusch, vous avez écrit : > On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:23:12 -0500, Francis Giraldeau wrote > > We are aware of this problem for years now. It does affect Firefox, but > > other major applications like OpenOffice. > > You are absolutely correct Francis, I see similar problems with OpenOffice, > just not near as often.
The same problem exist with Kpdf and probably Evince and Okular. > However Xorg is still the biggest problem in that they allow this too > happen. They say that the problem really lies in the OS and that it is too > hard to have Xorg figure out how to set priorities on RAM usage. I think > what needs to happen is a larger company (such as Ubuntu or Redhat) needs > to get some major Xorg developers to attend their next developers summit. > I would think if there was a group of programmers sitting together with a > few savvy Xorg developers it could be pointed out why this is a problem and > hopefully a fix could be put into place. But I think awareness needs to be > broadened, then this can get a higher priority. > > Unfortunately as Jim McQuillan and Scott Balnaeves have said, this largely > only affects those running thin clients, so the voice needing to be heard > is smaller than the desktop guys. But there is enough of a user base for > thin clients I would think the right people could get this taken care of, I > just don't know who they are :-) Well, the problem with memory usage in Kpdf affects also "fat" clients. There is many bug reports about it. -- Xavier [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09 54 06 16 26 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
