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Off-Topic => Off-Topic - The Funnies => Topic started by: curaga on December 23, 2011, 06:20:39 AM

Title: Perspective on memory
Post by: curaga on December 23, 2011, 06:20:39 AM

I measured how much ram jwm used - 9.7mb - but what surprised me is that 9mb of that is my wallpaper ;)

Brings things to perspective.

Title: Re: Perspective on memory
Post by: Rich on December 23, 2011, 10:13:09 AM

That's the price of choosing "form" over "function".

Title: Re: Perspective on memory
Post by: coreplayer2 on December 23, 2011, 11:41:21 AM

9MB wallpaper??  Interesting, is that one incredibly high resolution picture or many smaller pics all loaded without being used I wonder?

Title: Re: Perspective on memory
Post by: curaga on December 24, 2011, 02:05:42 AM

1920x1200 unpacked (1920x1200x4 = 9mb), as it needs to be for X. I'm not that familiar with X, but I suppose it can be either kept in memory by X (ie. when set by hsetroot) or by the WM (when the wm is known to be running for the session).

Title: Re: Perspective on memory
Post by: Rich on December 24, 2011, 06:03:37 AM

Hi curaga

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(1920x1200x4 = 9mb)

Am I missing something? 1920x1200x4 = 9Mb (Megabits), ((1920x1200x4)/8) = ~1.2MB) (Megabytes)

Title: Re: Perspective on memory
Post by: curaga on December 25, 2011, 05:53:21 AM

It's the 4 (bytes), which already has that conversion. In bits it would be 32.

Title: Re: Perspective on memory
Post by: Rich on December 25, 2011, 07:38:08 AM

Hi curaga
Oh, I see, you are running 1920x1200x32 resolution.