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From: callum@frost.bain.oz.au (Callum Gibson)
Subject: Re: XFree1-2 + 386BSD performance
Message-ID: <1993May14.022239.17354@frost.bain.oz.au>
Organization: Bain & Company
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Date: Fri, 14 May 1993 02:22:39 GMT
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David E. Wexelblat (dwex@mtgzfs3.att.com) replies to:
> wongm@ipc5.lat.oz.au (M.C. Wong) who laments about the performance of XFree:
> > 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.
>
> 'nice'ing the server up and your compiles down MAY help; I don't know.
> Nothing except accelerated hardware (and server support for same) will
> help much.
Yes, I was also going to recommend nice-ing the server up. I've used the same
thing here at work on Sparcs since the main thing is to get feedback from your
windows - you don't care if a (relatively) long compile takes a little longer.
The machine in question here is a Sparc2 with GX (which admittedly is an
accelerated card - though not as good performance as XS3, it gets about 80k)
but the speed up after nice-ing is noticeable while compiling. Give it a go -
it's a cheap fix.
regards,
Callum
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Callum Gibson callum@frost.bain.oz.au
Fixed Income Division, DB Bain & Co. 61 2 258 1620