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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!tezcat!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.bc.net!torn!nott!statcan.ca!jeays From: jeays@statcan.ca (Mike Jeays) Subject: Busy X-server Message-ID: <E61E9H.DJz@statcan.ca> Organization: Statistics Canada X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 03:41:40 GMT Lines: 17 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36087 I tried running a demonstration program called "plaid" on a remote Sun machine, linked via an ISDN line to my FreeBSD Pentium. It appears to transmit a set of X-protocol commands that draw pretty patterns in a window on my display, in which all the activity takes place locally in the X-server. The activity on the ISDN line drops to zero in just a few seconds. It works well - except that my machine becomes so CPU bound that it will not respond to the mouse or keyboard, which makes it very difficult to regain control and kill "plaid". It won't even respond to Ctrl-ALT-F1 and the like - I eventually got it to display another virtual screen (under FVWM), and then shut down the X-server and restarted it. Is there a trick to getting out of situations like this?