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From: krupczak@secola.Columbia.NCR.COM (Bobby Krupczak)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: SLOWWWWWWW Popups
Summary: Its your OS
Keywords: motif popup widgets
Message-ID: <618@secola.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 26 Oct 90 12:08:40 GMT
References: <1990Oct25.142436.9581@litwin.com> <1990Oct25.152616@wsl.dec.com>
Reply-To: krupczak@secola.columbia.ncr.com (Bobby Krupczak)
Organization: NCR Comten Columbia
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>In article <1990Oct25.142436.9581@litwin.com>, vlr@litwin.com (Vic Rice) writes:
> My group has been developing a reasonably large Motif application for about
> 18 months. Over the course of this development a significant problem
> has been slowly getting worse. The problem is the ever increasing time
> it takes for various popups to come up. 

I am going to make the incredibly astute observation that since you are using
SCO ODT, you are probably using SCO UNIX.

A while back, I was working on porting a client/server type application to
Interactive 2.2 and SCO XX.  The SCO UNIX was a dog!  I tried everything I
knew to tune the SCO kernel.  In through-put tests, the SCO was always dead
last by a big margin.

Have you turned off SCO's security stuff?  Upon installation of SCO UNIX, they
have all this security stuff turned on; if you turn it off, performance might
improve slightly -- ours did.

I think the gentleman from DEC had good suggestions also.

Bobby