Hi,
On 1 April 2014 05:54, Keith Packard <[email protected]> wrote: > Aaron Plattner <[email protected]> writes: > > Can't the max image size be multiple gigabytes? That seems a little > > large to describe as "close" to running out of heap space. > > The problem is that we're going to buffer that in memory anyway, down in > the OS layer. The only alternative is to block down there waiting for > the client to drain the image data. > > So, the chunking in DIX is not helping reduce memory usage, it's just > making the OS layer shuffle data around a lot. > You're correct in bandwidth/transfer terms, but not in terms of peak simultaneous usage. OTOH, I don't think it's really worth worrying about too much. People do rather adventurous things like 4K on ARM32, which is fine, but anyone who then does a core GetImage on the whole thing really deserves whatever they get. Cheers, Daniel
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