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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Tue, 16 May 2006 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > I just remembered that xpdf package includes:
> >    pdftops
> >    pdftoppm
> > These are non-X programs.
>
> Does that mean your pdf problem is fixed?
> Instead of using X to run xpdf 3.1, you convert
> them to ps/ppm and use a ps/ppm viewer instead?

Yes, but I have not tried this yet.  I should not be learning linux at 
1:30 am.

Make that ps or ppm viewer (bmv or zgv).

I just checked out your non-wm method of running X programs.
Useful for low RAM situations.

> Cheers,
> Steven


I have 96MB RAM on this computer (16MB on the laptop).
icewm, rxvt and xinit take up 2% of this (about 2MB)
Xvesa takes up 1.2% when used with icewm, at 800x600x15

Xvesa takes up 1.0% when used without icewm, at 1024x768x15
(Xvesa -screen 1024x768x15);DISPLAY=:0 $1 $2

I chmodded this and called it x.  sleep 1 was not needed on this computer 
- maybe on something slower with less RAM.

x xv file.jpg

xv and xli both use up 2.8% of memory.

So I can view in X with icewm and xli or xv with 6% of RAM (5.7MB).
With Xvesa but no xinit/icewm/rxvt 4% = about 4MB RAM

Yes I know the rxvt can be avoided by using the menu, but it is only .4%.
About 5.3MB to view with xli by the conventional setup, less with swm 
instead of icewm.

With zgv 1.3% = 1.2MB RAM.

This is a small 40K image.  A large one could take up more RAM, as could 
higher resolution.

Sindi