[FreeNX-kNX] Cannot load long webpage in NX

Wolfgang Schweer schweer at cityweb.de
Tue Mar 27 17:16:04 UTC 2007


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pascoff at nola7.com schrieb am 27.03.07 um 13:56 Uhr:

> exactly, Xorg/Xfree eats up the free memory and X crashes
>
> > > Disabling backing store on client might help with not image-related
> > > memory usage.
>
> it does NOT help with this problem, it does nothing at all at the client side
> (put as an option to Xorg)

[..]

> As far as I researched I found (I think) that the core of the problem is an
> built in extension in Xorg that is called MIT-SHM which cashes
> images/graphics in memory which is used by Xorg to recall recently opened
> images from memory in opposite to redraw them again. I couldn't find a way to
> disable it and the solution may be to change the source of Xorg as Fabian
> said in his post.
> Does anyone have an idea how to disable this "feature" in Xorg?
> In my case memory is more important (in financial view) than a little
> performance issue.

You might try to set in node.conf:

AGENT_EXTRA_OPTIONS_X="-noshmem"


Some time ago this setting resolved a related problem when using
IceWM.

Wolfgang
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