Subject: Re: HEADS UP: XFree86 4.x now default for i386 and x86_64 ports
To: Jenkins, Graham K \[IBM GSA\] <Graham.K.Jenkins@team.telstra.com>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: tech-x11
Date: 07/05/2002 12:44:18
"Jenkins, Graham K [IBM GSA]" <Graham.K.Jenkins@team.telstra.com> writes:
> XFree86 4.x under 1.6Beta3 seems to be much slower than 
> XFree86 3.3.x under 1.5.2 on an old machine
> (read 486DX2/66VL with 16Mb memory and Cirrus GD5428 card!).
> 
> Already got a minimal kernel; anyone got any other (polite!) 
> suggestions for making it faster? 

You may want to tune your kernel vm parameters with sysctl. 1.6 uses a
unified buffer cache, so it might end up tossing a lot of your
processes out of memory to do file i/o. This tends to make interactive
performance bite. Playing with those numbers is key to making
interactive performance smooth on a small memory machine.

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Perry E. Metzger		perry@piermont.com
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