Hi David, Thanks for your response, been looking at the wrong mailing list, the one at mail-archive.com doesn't seem to be updated regularly.
Do you have an idea to get me started at how to look at what modules use the most memory? Commands, docs etc... My knowledge consists of top and mem. Doesn't really give a good break down :o) Cheers Miles On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 11:24:50AM +1200, Miles Roper wrote: >Hi, > >I'm trying to compile XFree86 4.3.0.1 with > >#define BuildLowMem = YES > >as it seems to be a option for low memory machines. I'm trying to reduce >memory consumption of XFree for a thinclient solution. > >When compiling the following error occurs > >+ ln -s ../../../../programs/xmh/box6 . >make[4]: *** No rule to make target `../cfb/cfb8cppl.c', needed by >`cfb8cppl.c'. Stop. >make[3]: *** [includes] Error 2 >make[2]: *** [includes] Error 2 >make[1]: *** [includes] Error 2 > >seems to be a problem with > >xfree86-4.30/xc/programs/Xserver/lmfcfb' > >Ideas? This is an option that was added to an X Consortium release some time ago. At best it's in need of being reworked, but given our move away from cfb, it probably isn't useful anymore, at least not for the XFree86 server. Aside from building smaller versions of mfb and cfb (which XFree86 only rarely uses), it also disables scalable font backends. You can achieve the same thing for the XFree86 server by simply not loading those font modules. Minimising the footprint of the XFree86 server for certain classes of applications would be an interesting project. Progress in that direction could be made by carefully modularising some of the built-in code (and drivers?). For your specific application, a good start would be to do some analysis and find out where most of the memory is being eaten up. It might not be what you expect. David -- David Dawes Founder/committer/developer The XFree86 Project www.XFree86.org/~dawes _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
