Subject: Re: Why do some X clients take so long to start up?
To: None <ADAMGOOD@delphi.com>
From: Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/20/1997 20:32:16
At 10:09 Uhr +0100 20.11.1997, ADAMGOOD@delphi.com wrote:

>I am running monocrome X on my PB160 (Takashi's kernel from March) with a
>1.2.1 distribution and X11R6.1.  The system has 12 meg of RAM.  Some X clients
>like editres and many others start up in a reasonable amount of time.  Others
>like Chimera take literally about 25 minutes to start.  They are not that
      ^^^^^^^
Sounds like font-intensive apps. I seem to remember that font scaling is
floating-point work (Ken?), and your PowerBook does not have an FPU.
Additionally, 12MB is, well, not much for X.

But Chimera is dog slow on any '030 machine.


>different in size, and no swapping takes place, so I don't think it's a
>memory problem.

	hauke


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