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From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc Wandschneider)
Subject: Re: XFree1-2 + 386BSD performance
Message-ID: <1993May12.144311.14744@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
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Organization: SOCS - Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada
References: <1993May12.025731.29769@latcs1.lat.oz.au>
Date: Wed, 12 May 1993 14:43:11 GMT
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In article <1993May12.025731.29769@latcs1.lat.oz.au> wongm@ipc5.lat.oz.au (M.C. Wong) writes:
>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.
This is rather bizarre---I ran XFree86 and 0.1 on my 486/50; and
with Xeyes, Xclock, and three compiles running, the load average
hit about 2.27, but the machine was still quite responsive, and
the mouse and windows still moved around as fast as they had
before I started all the builds.
Toodlepip!
Marc 'em.
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