Limit on windows?

Mark Callow msc at ramoth.esd.sgi.com
Wed Nov 22 05:51:24 AEST 1989


In article <21259 at uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>, pff at beach.cis.ufl.edu (Pablo
Fernicola) writes:
> Is there a limit on the number of windows that can be opened using winopen()?
> 
> Is about 100 windows okay?
Should be fine except for performance issues.

> 
> We are running a Personal Iris with 8 Megs of memory, is the number of
> windows memory dependent?
Yes.  You can have as many windows as you can fit into your virtual memory.
However performance will fall off as you start swapping.  Some previous
IRIX release for certain machines had bugs where more than 256
windows would break.  I believe these are fixed in 3.2.

--
>From the TARDIS of Mark Callow
msc at ramoth.sgi.com, ...{ames,decwrl}!sgi!msc
"There is much virtue in a window.  It is to a human being as a frame is to
a painting, as a proscenium to a play.  It strongly defines its content."



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