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Subject: XFree1-2 + 386BSD performance
Message-ID: <1993May12.025731.29769@latcs1.lat.oz.au>
From: wongm@ipc5.lat.oz.au (M.C. Wong)
Date: Wed, 12 May 1993 02:57:31 GMT
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Hi,
I have a question about the performanc of running XFree1.2 on
386BSD 0.1. In multi-user mode running 3 xterms, xeyes, xclock,
xload and xbiff, when I do serious compiling in one of the window,
I realize that the performance of the overall X activities are
intolerable slow and it chokes very very much, and I can hardly
see my mouse moving/appearing on the screen for 5-10 seconds.
I wonder :
1) does the system resource limit (set by limit from tcsh) has
great effect on the performance ?
2) I am running on 486/33 with 16M of RAM, is this considered
the expected performance ? Besides I am running on a local
bus board.
3) has anyone tried fine-tuning the performance of 386BSD + XFree
such that it runs better ? If so, can u please post some
useful guidelines, as I think many of us will like to know.
4) Is the choking a pure limitation of the 486 CPU power, or
is it the size of memory ? If I go on to > 16M, say 20M,
will that gives me better performance ?
5) Does the size of the swap space affect that ? If so, how can
I increase the swap space size ?
Many thanks in advance!
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