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From: asente@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Asente)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X performance drop
Keywords: plock
Message-ID: <1904@bacchus.dec.com>
Date: 6 Oct 89 17:15:02 GMT
References: <1184@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Organization: DEC Western Software Lab
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Two possibilities come to mind:

1)  Your server has a memory leak and is growing extremely large.  I had
this problem with a development server for a while (it grew 2K bytes every
time I switched focus) and the symptom was exactly as you describe.

2)  Your server is getting auto-niced by the OS after it accumulates too
much runtime.  This would most likely take effect more quickly than you
describe.  If it is the problem, running the server niced with a higher
priority should solve it.  My experience is that in general running with a
niced server, even niced slighly, gives superior performance.

	-paul asente
	    asente@decwrl.dec.com	decwrl!asente