Xref: utzoo comp.unix.ultrix:4194 comp.windows.x:25456 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!sics.se!obg From: obg@sics.se (Olof Backing) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.windows.x Subject: Re: stuck xterm Message-ID: <1990Aug8.064647.20742@sics.se> Date: 8 Aug 90 06:46:47 GMT References: Sender: news@sics.se Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista Lines: 36 emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) writes: >ultrix 4.0, decstation 5000. decwindows window manager, and an xterm >window the entire height of the screen and 1/2 the screen wide. >the xterm was started from a decterm window (xterm &). >when I cat a long file (50K) to that window, the scrolling is choppy, >but no more that I would expect. but: when I cat that same file through >a simple perl filter (i.e. slightly slower display) the xterm scrolling >sometimes gets stuck. The window freezes. Control-left doesn't >bring up a menu, ps shows "idle", everything is gone. Somewhere like >a minute or two later (after I hit some buttons) the window comes >back and all is well again. >I've had it happen with two different xterms, using exactly the same >test. Not sure how many times it's happened before or whether I could >repeat it tomorrow. >Is there any way to get a trace of what's happening in a currently running >Ultrix process (like the AT&T "truss" or the SunOS "trace" ?) Sure >would be nice right now. How 'bout using a REAL window-system like X11 instead of DECWindows.... >--Ed >Edward Vielmetti, U of Michigan math dept >comp.text.sgml ISO 8879 SGML, structured documents, markup languages > yes votes to sgml-yes@math.lsa.umich.edu > no votes to sgml-no@math.lsa.umich.edu WHOAMI: Olof Backing EMAIL: WHERE: Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS) obg@sics.se SNAIL: Professorsslingan 25/102, S-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden VOICE: + 46 8 166318