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From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Sluggishness when altering a large IMPROV worksheet
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Date: 15 May 91 17:09:05 GMT
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In article <504@heaven.woodside.ca.us> 
          glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) writes:
> Robin Bush writes
> > 
> > I have an Improv worksheet containing 3 categories, 50 groups and 10
> > equations.  I find that once the equations are in place, making any 
> > subsequent structural changes to the worksheet can take a half hour
> > or longer!
> 
> Pretty polite of you to call it "sluggish" if it takes half an hour.
>     [Glen does some speculating, skipped over here]

One thing you (Robin) might want to do is open a terminal window and do a 
      ps -axv
to see what processes are using up memory on your machine.

With this large worksheet in place, is it just Improv that is sluggish, or are  
all applications sluggish?
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Garance Alistair Drosehn   = gad@rpi.edu  or  gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer                       (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;  Troy NY  USA