Re: X Installation
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
> De Jay wrote
> > FYI, when I tried running Netscape on my 386 with 8M RAM (30M swap),
> > it locked up my machine every time. you've been warned.
>
> Did you have a coprocessor, and did you have xfs running?
yes, I had a coprocessor.
I believe you are referring to 'xdm', not xfs. i had xdm running as
well. xfs (dos-based nfs client) was running on my 286, while pcnfsd
nfsd and mountd were running on my 386. netscape took between 8 and
15 minutes to load, and as soon as I landed on a page with too much
animation (animated gifs or java scripts, it didn't matter), netscape
would lock up my whole machine. i used every trick in the book to
kill netscape and/or get back into the machine with another console or
another terminal... but even my serial-line terminal was locked up, so
I know that there was no way back in. BTW, only 70% of my virtual
memory was occupied when it crashed. if you have any suggestions that
I have not thought of yet, i am willing to try them >:-)
- DeJay.
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> A yar and a half or so ago, someone using macbsd without a coprocessor
> found that, contrary to what was believed, mosaic did work with
> an emulated coprocessor. He got called away and returned
> an hour later, discovering that it had launched.
>
> Selecting fonts with no postscript equivalent for *everythign*
> and running xfs make all the difference in the world. For that matter,
> even with a 486 & coprocessor, they make the difference between
> painful & usable.
>
> X is single-threaded. While it renders a font,, it can do nothing
> else. And on a slow machine without a coprocessor, this takes a
> very long time. With a 486/33, it can take a couple of minutes.
>
> By running xfs, you can keep the rest of X running to do something else
> (like hit keys to switch to a console :)
>
> rick
>
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