[Xprint] Xserver large file aware?
Alan Coopersmith
Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM
Tue Apr 12 11:27:29 EDT 2005
Julien Lafon wrote:
> Hello,
>
> today we ran some experiments using very large GL surfaces
> (16384x16384) as suggested by Brian Paul to test if the software
> renderer can handle such large view ports.
> The native PDF driver was OK but using the Postscript driver we hit
> the maximum file size at 2GB after 25 frames. Therefore my question -
> is the Xserver code supposed to be large file aware?
I don't think anyone's done any work in that area, since the X server
doesn't normally access files that have any need of being that large.
(A 2gb config file would be truly frightening.)
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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