On Thu, Apr 17, 1997 at 08:59:28AM -0700, Jason S. wrote:
> 
> Note well that I am not posting this as a complaint!  I'm just curious
> as to why (1) my machine takes soooooo loooong to start Mosaic and (2)
> why X locks up sooooo tightly when Mosaic starts up.  (Arena and Chimera
> start pretty fast and don't lock X when they are starting).

X often appears to 'lock up' if it's busy rendering fonts.  Since the
X server is usually single threaded, when it's busy with fonts, not
much else can happen. ;-)

A good solution to this is to run xfs (X Font Server), and point the
X server at xfs for teh fonts.  This allows xfs to handle the rendering
of fonts, etc, and all the server does is request a specific font, and
then wait for it to be delivered.  If you can run xfs on a different
machine, this helps a LOT..but even on the same system, it can
aid in the responsiveness quite a bit.


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