Not solved!

[Michel Dänzer]

On Sat, 2009-02-07 at 20:45 +0000, Nix wrote: 
> 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! :)

Last week I finally got around to addressing the last issues pointed out
by the feedback I received on the patch, and today I pushed it to Git
master. So it should be in the 1.7 release.


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