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- From: brtmac@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (Brett McCoy)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Xfree386 1.0.2
- Date: 10 Sep 1992 16:59:47 -0500
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- In-reply-to: wigodsky@cwis.unomaha.edu's message of Thu, 10 Sep 1992 20:14:34 GMT
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- In article <wigodsky.716156074@cwis> wigodsky@cwis.unomaha.edu (Andrew Wigodsky) writes:
-
- >Would someone mind telling me why X386 is _so_ disk intensive.
- >Whenever I scroll from one Xterm to another, it seems to take
- >_forever_ because of all the disk access that is going on.
- >
- >I am running on a 386-40 (AMD. of course) and my unix partition
- >is on an 80MB maxtor IDE.. any clues as to why X386 is so slow?
-
- How much RAM do you have? If you are running with less than 8M you
- have too little and are paging everything but X and the current xterm
- to disk.
-
- ++Brett;
-