Not solved!

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Sat Feb 7 12:45:46 PST 2009


On 7 Feb 2009, nix at esperi.org.uk spake thusly:

> On 6 Feb 2009, Michel Dänzer told this:
>> On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 18:43 +0000, Nix wrote:
>>> A kludgy approach would be to do whatever gets done on VT switch (dump
>>> and repopulate the entirety of EXA offscreen memory?) whenever a
>>> significant fraction of allocation requests start to fail due to
>>> fragmentation.
>>
>> Yeah, but I implemented something fancier. :) Care to try the attached
>> patch?
>
> Testing now. I suppose it'll be rather obvious if it fubars the glyph
> cache :) so if it's still OK in half a day or so things are probably
> fine,

It seems happy: things are still fast. Thank you! :)


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