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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!metro!news From: dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes) Subject: Re: X386 far too busy? Message-ID: <1992Aug18.083413.12774@ucc.su.OZ.AU> Sender: news@ucc.su.OZ.AU Nntp-Posting-Host: physics.su.oz.au Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia References: <1992Aug17.211128.7958@novatel.cuc.ab.ca> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 08:34:13 GMT Lines: 30 In article <1992Aug17.211128.7958@novatel.cuc.ab.ca> hpeyerl@novatel.cuc.ab.ca (Herb Peyerl) writes: >Hi... > >I started the server about 18 hours ago and left it with only >two xterm's, an icon box, and an xclock running... There was >basically no activity all night. This morning I did a "ps -agx" >and noticed that X386 had racked up 1145:23.29 CPU (minutes?)... >That's sort of horrendous isn't it? I'm presently typing on an >Apollo DN3500 running an X11R4 server... The node's been up since >July 16th and is the node I work on all day long every day and it's >only racked up 465 CPU minutes... > >I'm wondering if there's something brutal going on in the X386 server... >I mean, I realize that an ET3000 is not your typically fast card >but XTerm's are REALLY grim... Maybe I'm just used to this Apollo >(which, on it's own is not overly impressive compared to say an >HP720...) > >I dunno... Just wondering if anyone else has noticed this? Try applying the com.c patch posted a little while back. The problem is that select() keeps telling the server you've moved the mouse even when you haven't. David -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ David Dawes (dawes@physics.su.oz.au) DoD#210 | Phone: +61 2 692 2639 School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia | Fax: +61 2 660 2903 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------