Firefox Granparadiso + Patch and tweak

[Jim Kronebusch]

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:29:43 -0400, Jim McQuillan wrote
> Jim,
> 
> WOW !!!!
> 
> This is fantastic.  Thank you for sticking with this problem and finding 
> (we hope) a reasonable solution.
> 
> Too bad it's so late in the game for Ubuntu Gutsy.  But, what thing I've 
> learned about distros like Ubuntu.....  Just be patient, another release 
> cycle is just around the corner.

Thanks for the kudos.  I ordered 64MB sticks to add to all my printers and 108 512MB RAM
sticks for all my clients yesterday/this morning.  So by tomorrow afternoon these
problems should mostly go away for me.  But this doesn't mean it should be forgotten as
this appears to be a very big problem for LTSP and seems as though it will continue to
get worse, possibly preventing LTSP from being stable at all on lower memory client (bad
for a large part of the world).

So now I am hammering on xorg to get a fix to limit the amount of RAM available for
pixmap storage (I was slammed on the list stating pixmaps are not cached but stored). 
This may be a better workaround than limiting RAM usage in general.  I doubt it will go
anywhere.  But at least if that was done client stability could be fairly stable and if
an app lost stability then that could be dealt with on more reasonable timeline.

Jim

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