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Secondly, <application>Massif</application> only takes into account the memory used by your own program. Resources like pixmaps are stored in the X server and aren't considered by <application>Massif</application>. In the <application>Same GNOME</application> example we have actually only moved the memory consumption from client-side pixbufs to server-side pixmaps. Even though we cheated there are performance gains. Keeping the image data in the X server makes the graphics routines quicker and removes a lot of inter-process communication. Also, the pixmaps will be stored in a native graphics format which is often more compact than the 32-bit RGBA format used by gdk_pixbuf. To measure the effect of pixmaps, and other X resources use the <ulink type="http" url="http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/xrestop">xrestop</ulink> program.