XServer out of memory issues

[Jim Kronebusch]

On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:09:01 -0500, Todd O'Bryan wrote
> Does anyone have contacts at OO.o they could mention this to? If we
> just had a way to prevent applications from trying to cache stuff in
> video RAM that they don't need to, about 80% of my thin client
> crashing problems would be solved.
> 
> Todd

Well, I have a "shim" file somewhere written by a user on the xorg mailing list.  Jim
McQuillan (likely a good source :-) recommended against such a hack because it is a very
sloppy solution.  Basically the shim script is used to call on the application and then
dumps the cache data for the app since the app doesn't have the capability.  If you want
to play around with it let me know and I'll send it to you.  I did try it to launch
firefox and it worked pretty well, but I never tried it with OpenOffice.  Even though it
isn't a good solution, it might get you by until a good one is found.

Jim

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