Request: RealVNC no display mode

[Feico de Boer (ML)]

James Weatherall wrote:

> Your assessment of accounting for when to release the blit buffer is
> incorrect - but hey, 1 out of 2 isn't bad! :)  Accounting for release of the
> buffer is actually simpler than that and the hard bit is actually handling
> "lazy" allocation of the blit buffer in the first place.
> 
> That level of optimisation hasn't been a priority for us because
> Win2VNC/x2vnc etc are relatively obscure tools & because desktop systems
> tend to have huge amounts of memory at their disposal.  (A typical XP system
> seems to take about 140Mb just for a single user logged on with no other
> programs running, for example!).  If a simple & safe solution becomes
> apparent then we'll certainly consider including it.

I tend to have quite a few applications open and thus exceed the 256 MB 
of actual RAM regularely, figures into the high 300's are no exeption. 
For desktops this is in general workable, but due to the slow harddisks 
found in laptops it can get very annoying to swap in. In that case 10 MB 
extra can make quite a difference (background info).

The fact that you consider the optimization is great for now, thanks for 
the attention.

Regards,
Feico.