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#! rnews 1471 sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.zeitgeist.net!usenet From: "Amancio Hasty, Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SYSVSHM in 2.0.5R Date: 24 Jul 1995 18:41:10 GMT Organization: TLGnet, a division of RGNet, Inc. Lines: 28 Message-ID: <3v0pg6$htm@kadath.zeitgeist.net> References: <3ukg1c$65e@mips.infocom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: rah.star-gate.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) X-URL: news:3ukg1c$65e@mips.infocom.com daveho@infocom.com (Dave Hovemeyer) wrote: >In article <3uj625$mdr@atlantis.utmb.edu> you wrote: >: Does > >: options SYSVSHM > >: work in 2.0.5R? > >Yes. > >: And would it speed up X on an 8MB 486? > >Not in general, although it would allow you to run programs that make use >of the MITSHM extension (I think that's what it's called). > Not sure if anyone mentioned this but one of the ways to improve X performance is to get a graphics accelerator like an Actix or #9 s3 based card. Also, a vlb or pci s3 based card can improve significantly certain X operations like drawing an image or reading an image . -- Amancio Hasty Hasty Software Consulting Services Tel: 415-495-3046, Fax 415-495-3046, Cellular: 415-309-8434 e-mail: hasty@star-gate.com