Re: X Freeze 99
Are you running a font server (xfs and/or xfstt)? I understand that the
X servers can appear to freeze when attempting to process certain
fonts... running a font server offloads that task to a background
process, so that only the application requesting the font is forced to
wait.
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 09:41:00AM -0500, Harrison, Shawn wrote:
> When working in X, I sometimes find that my screen becomes frozen or very
> sluggish. On other occasions the mouse alone is very unresponsive. I
> haven't found a pattern to it, although it seems to happen more often
> when running Arena, Amaya, gzilla, and perhaps TkInfo (although I'm not
> sure about the last one). Does anyone else experience this behavior? Does
> anyone know a remedy? Some pertinent stats:
>
> 200 Mhz 6x86 Cyrix processor
> 64 MB SDRAM
> S3VirGe Video Card
> Running X with S3V server
> icewm (out of the box)
> xdm
> old vga monitor (the irony of it, considering s3v etc.)
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