How to setup xvfb

[ying lcs]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 1:35 AM, Tiago Vignatti <vignatti at c3sl.ufpr.br> wrote:
> ying lcs escreveu:
>
> > Hi,
>  >
>  > Can you please tell me if i can setup multiple xvfb (say 10) on
>  > different display on 1 machine?
>
>  Yes, for sure. Try something like this:
>
>  $ for ((i=1;i<10;i+=1)); do ./Xvfb :$i \-fp /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/ &
>   done
>
>
>
>  > If yes, can you please tell me what is the drawback? e.g. memory
>  > consumption? or CPU?
>
>  This totally depends what kind of task the clients would be performing.
>  If no client is connected the server stays sleeping in Dispatch(),
>  WaitForSomething() precisely.
>
>

Thanks.  Can you please tell me which will cause more memory?

Open 10 applications on 1 xvfb?

Or open each of the 10 applications on a different xvfb (10 xvfb in total).


>  Cheers,
>
>  --
>  Tiago Vignatti
>  C3SL - Centro de Computação Científica e Software Livre
>  www.c3sl.ufpr.br
>