Re: Desktop wallpaper and HD swapping

Kuan Ju Liu (kjliu@math.Stanford.EDU)
Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:40:29 -0800 (PST) 

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Thanks very much for the response, especially since my question was  
rather newby. I realize that this problem is common to all platforms, from
Apple to Sun. I was just wondering whether asetroot (or something
else) had the facility to load wallpapers into memory.

I assume then that refresh speed is tied to the speed of the hard drive?

Kuan Ju


On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Randall Hopper wrote:

> Kuan Ju Liu:
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>  |Setup: Sun Ultra 5 running Solaris 2.6.?
>  |
>  |Sometimes when I switch to a desktop with a full-size wallpaper, the
>  |screen update is extremely slow. It sounds like it's been read from the
>  |hard drive. Most of the time, refresh is quick, but is there a way to 
>  |force the wallpaper permanently into RAM? Or do I simply have to buy more
>  |RAM?
>  |
>  |Advance apologies if this wasn't an AS-specific question.
> 
> More memory may or may not help.  We did some development on Solaris a few
> years ago (2.3-2.5 days) with much more phys mem and swap than is normally
> required (medical imaging apps), and Solaris is very predisposed to push
> used memory pages out to disk, even when the system is idle.  The pro is
> that new programs start up quickly because less (if any) memory space needs
> to be freed.  The big con is it sometimes kills the performance of some of
> your apps if certain pages haven't been touched recently.  Swapping of big
> pixmaps for root windows is just one place you'll see this.
> 
> -- 
> Randall Hopper
> aa8vb@yahoo.com
> 

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