perry@piermont.com (Perry E. Metzger) writes:


>"Stephen B. Salai" <bsalai@rochester.rr.comlaw.tmonline.com> writes:
>> I just did a make readme in pkgsrc.devel. Not only did it take about
>> half an hour, but my SS5 became almost unusably slow during that time, I
>> mean really slow, the mouse didn't respond for a second or so, keystroke
>> debouncing stopped working, and things just started to act like X
>> running on a ZX-81.
>> 
>> This is on a sparc5-110 running 1.3.3, with lots of memory (top showed
>> no use of swap space while this was going on)

>Try running this program. If it makes your machine very slow, you are
>suffering from a bug that we've been hunting recently -- please let me 
>know.

Uhm, Perry, this is virtually the same configuration that i docuemented
the problem on elsewhere.  To quote from my mail:

	Also, doing "make <anything>" in pkgsrc causes X to "freeze" for a
	couple of seconds.


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