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From: rusty@velveeta.berkeley.edu (rusty wright)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: twm reactions
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Date: 15 Jun 88 03:17:23 GMT
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In article <8806141942.AA29931@ATHENA> DCOOPER%ESDSDF.DECnet@GE-CRD.ARPA writes:
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>I just started using TWM and like it, though I have two problems with it.
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>First, the pulldown menus are not as quick as desirable (on my sun 3).

What's the difference in speed like when you first click on a button
(in the background say) to get a pulldown menu, and then release the
button and then immediately press the button again?  I often find that
the first time I bring up a twm menu after having not done so for a
while that there is quite a delay, but if I immediately click on that
button again the menu comes up as fast as I could want.

I'm pretty sure that the reason it's so slow to bring up the menu the
first time when I haven't used it for a while is because I'm using a
sun 3/50 (only 4 megs of memory) and twm has simply either been swapped
out or most of its pages have been paged out and the delay is because
unix is paging or swapping it in.  (I modified xperfmon so that that it
also displays page out's; the line is flat only when I first come in
in the morning; the rest of the day it always has spikes, or spikes with
flat tops.)

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	rusty c. wright
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