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From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Speeding up Sun 4 X?
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Date: 30 Dec 89 06:25:07 GMT
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Please be kind to an X beginner.  I sit down at an 8Meg  Sun 4/260 and type:
xnews

and get a server that runs so slowly I can't believe it.  Am I doing
something wrong? Is there some option I can set to make it use less memory
so it will be less likely to be swapped out?

More data: after a compile, there is a three second pause before mouse
tracking restarts. It often takes longer than ten seconds for menus to
appear.  When windows are destroyed, the bits that were behind the window
at the time it was created show for a second. If I try to run MWM, it
hangs as soon as I click inside a window. Before that, it leaves garbage
on the screen. The other events, naturally, are just with the default
window manager.  What books should I already have read? (I am working
with the O'Reilly books and the Young book.)

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