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From: mike@DART.CS.BYU.EDU (Mike Burbidge)
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Subject: Speeding up Sun 4 X?
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Date: 2 Jan 90 17:10:08 GMT
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The developer's version of OpenWindows 1.0 is a terrible memory hog. It uses
about 5.7 meg of runtime memory. You are experiencing an incredible amount
of paging and swapping. Sun has promised to address the memory problems by
their June release for the public (not just developers).

If you are just interested in running X11 stuff you can start xnews without
the NeWS server. Simply set the environment variable X11ONLY. You can
further reduce memory consumtion if you are not interrested in clip and
paste between SunView programs and XView programs. (SunView programs will
run under Suns X11) Set the environment variable NOSXSEL. At this point you
will have a server that uses under 2.5 meg of runtime memory.

Mike Burbidge.
mike@cs.byu.edu