From: hlu@luke.eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu) Subject: Re: Xfree 1.2 on SLS Date: 20 Feb 1993 04:53:11 GMT
In article <1993Feb19.091110.824@victrola.sea.wa.us> vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan) writes:
>I just grabbed the X1.2 stuff for SLS and it all installs and runs fine,
>but it's slooooooooooow compared to the X1.1 that I installed from the
>non-SLS binary distribution way back when.
>
>Is there a reason it's so incredibly slow to load ? I'm running on a
>8MB 386 with a 16 MB swap partition, and although x1.1 sometimes showed
>a little ripple on the screen when scrolling, this one seems slower.
>
>It's sure much slower to load and the system seems like it's paging fom
>the sound of the disk. Am I the victim of 'creeping featurism' ???
>
FYI, Xfree86 1.2 is compiled with -m486. Is that a factor?
H.J.