From: fortony@sonne.cso.uiuc.edu Subject: Re: problems with X Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 04:05:14 GMT
c3460344@fsu1.cc.fsu.edu (C3460344) writes:
>Is it me? I am running X11 1.1 and I am having serious problems. When
>using kermit just now, I tried to open a bash xterm from the menu and after
>about a minute of off and on disk action, everything had locked up.
>Besides that, whenever I open more than one window, I get VERY slow
>response time and the mouse is very jerky. I must be doing something
>wrong.
>Setup
> 386-25 4Megs RAM
> 40 Meg linux partition
> 8 Meg swap ^^^^^^
> Linux 0.96c (MCC-interim)
> Diamond Speedstar SVGA card with 1 Meg
> Gateway Crystalscan NI 14" monitor
> Running X in 640x480
I have the exact same setup as you, and I had the exact same problem until
I installed my swap partition. Just on the offchance, make sure that
your swap partition is set up correctly in your /etc/fstab, and that 'free'
reports the correct amount of swap space.
>Jeff Blaine
>c3460344@fsu1.cc.fsu.edu
-- a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Felix Sebastian Ortony fortony@murphy.gis.uiuc.edu