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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!news From: brtmac@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (Brett McCoy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Xfree386 1.0.2 Date: 10 Sep 1992 16:59:47 -0500 Organization: Kansas State University Lines: 14 Message-ID: <18oggjINNd04@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> References: <wigodsky.716156074@cwis> NNTP-Posting-Host: maverick.ksu.ksu.edu In-reply-to: wigodsky@cwis.unomaha.edu's message of Thu, 10 Sep 1992 20:14:34 GMT In article <wigodsky.716156074@cwis> wigodsky@cwis.unomaha.edu (Andrew Wigodsky) writes: >Would someone mind telling me why X386 is _so_ disk intensive. >Whenever I scroll from one Xterm to another, it seems to take >_forever_ because of all the disk access that is going on. > >I am running on a 386-40 (AMD. of course) and my unix partition >is on an 80MB maxtor IDE.. any clues as to why X386 is so slow? How much RAM do you have? If you are running with less than 8M you have too little and are paging everything but X and the current xterm to disk. ++Brett;