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Path: sserve!cserve.cs.adfa.oz.au!wkt
From: wkt@cserve.cs.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey)
Subject: Re: Problems with xv-3.00a and a question.
Message-ID: <1994Jan7.022121.29531@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au>
Sender: news@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au
Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy
References: <CJ3M5r.Cvp@news.direct.net> <s902150.757870494@numbat>
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 02:21:21 GMT

In article <s902150.757870494@numbat>, s902150@numbat.cs.rmit.OZ.AU (Brian Havard) writes:
|
|>   I've also come across this problem but I found that if you leave it
|> going for long enough (a couple of minutes usually) it _does_ come up.
|> I'm using a 386-40 8 megs. Top shows it using all free CPU time the
|> whole time. Once it does come up, however, I found it failed to set the
|> palette correctly and was exruciatingly (spel?) slow to do anything.
 
I've had the same problem. Earlier versions of xv were fast to start and
fast to use. I've even compiled xv without TIFF support to minimise memory
usage, and I have a 386DX40 with 16Megs, so no real memory deficiency. Can
anybody with a coprocessor (387, 486DX) comment on speed, just to exclude
this from suspicion. Perhaps the only solution is to gprof it.

Thanks,
	Warren
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