fisher@paul.rutgers.edu (Greg Fisher) (09/20/90)
I am working on a program that causes the X server to grow by a large amount (1-4 Meg/window). The windows that are causing problems are Motif graphics windows. Scrolling is controlled by Motif, so the window is retained. That is likely to make it take up a lot of space (1 Meg) since it is a color window. However, depending on the configuration of windows on the screen when the windows are opened, opening a new window can cause the X server to grow by 2 or 3 meg in the typical case. If the old windows are mostly off the screen, then the server only grows by about 1 Meg for each new window. Does anyone have any idea why it grows in a screen configuration dependent fashion? If so, how can we minimize the growth of the X server? At this point, it probably is not feasible to rewrite the scrolling so that we do it instead of Motif. Thanks for any help. Greg Fisher fisher@ctt.bellcore.com