Subject: Re: Linux emulation: Acrobat busy/wait?
To: Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au>
From: Zdenek Salvet <salvet@horn.ics.muni.cz>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/25/1997 19:53:59
> 
> Having got the Linux Acrobat reader binary running, I now note that it
> chews up large amounts of CPU time, even before a .pdf file is opened.
> 
> The behaviour could of course be an Acrobat bug, or it could be
> something not quite right in the emulation.  Is anyone else running
> Acrobat Reader 3.0 (either on NetBSD or Linux)?

I run acroread 3.0 with 1.2 kernel, it consumes only 2.5 seconds on startup
(on Pentium 100) and  ~1% when sitting idle (many syscalls per sec though).

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Zdenek Salvet                                              salvet@ics.muni.cz 
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