pff@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Pablo Fernicola) (11/20/89)
Is there a limit on the number of windows that can be opened using winopen()? Is about 100 windows okay? We are running a Personal Iris with 8 Megs of memory, is the number of windows memory dependent? -- pff@beach.cis.ufl.edu - Pablo Fernicola - Machine Intelligence Laboratory - UF IF YOU CARE ENOUGH TO READ SIGNATURES ... I am graduating next year and I am looking for a job. MS/BS EE, my graduate work incorporates OO-DBMS/Graphics/Robotics/AI
msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow) (11/22/89)
In article <21259@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>, pff@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Pablo Fernicola) writes: > Is there a limit on the number of windows that can be opened using winopen()? > > Is about 100 windows okay? Should be fine except for performance issues. > > We are running a Personal Iris with 8 Megs of memory, is the number of > windows memory dependent? Yes. You can have as many windows as you can fit into your virtual memory. However performance will fall off as you start swapping. Some previous IRIX release for certain machines had bugs where more than 256 windows would break. I believe these are fixed in 3.2. -- From the TARDIS of Mark Callow msc@ramoth.sgi.com, ...{ames,decwrl}!sgi!msc "There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a proscenium to a play. It strongly defines its content."