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- From: dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes)
- Subject: Re: X386 far too busy?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.083413.12774@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
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- Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
- References: <1992Aug17.211128.7958@novatel.cuc.ab.ca>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 08:34:13 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug17.211128.7958@novatel.cuc.ab.ca> hpeyerl@novatel.cuc.ab.ca (Herb Peyerl) writes:
- >Hi...
- >
- >I started the server about 18 hours ago and left it with only
- >two xterm's, an icon box, and an xclock running... There was
- >basically no activity all night. This morning I did a "ps -agx"
- >and noticed that X386 had racked up 1145:23.29 CPU (minutes?)...
- >That's sort of horrendous isn't it? I'm presently typing on an
- >Apollo DN3500 running an X11R4 server... The node's been up since
- >July 16th and is the node I work on all day long every day and it's
- >only racked up 465 CPU minutes...
- >
- >I'm wondering if there's something brutal going on in the X386 server...
- >I mean, I realize that an ET3000 is not your typically fast card
- >but XTerm's are REALLY grim... Maybe I'm just used to this Apollo
- >(which, on it's own is not overly impressive compared to say an
- >HP720...)
- >
- >I dunno... Just wondering if anyone else has noticed this?
-
- Try applying the com.c patch posted a little while back. The problem
- is that select() keeps telling the server you've moved the mouse even
- when you haven't.
-
- David
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