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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!nigel.msen.com!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!news!brtmac From: brtmac@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (Brett McCoy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: slow keyboard response under X Date: 9 Sep 92 00:53:35 Organization: Kansas State University Lines: 25 Message-ID: <BRTMAC.92Sep9005335@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: maverick.ksu.ksu.edu I've been trying to figure out what the cause of this is and so far I haven't been able to tell. Under X there is a very noticable lag between pressing a key and having the character appear in a xterm. Holding down a key gets a delay, then a burst of characters, then another delay, then a burst, then a delay, etc. The delays are about 1 second long. I have a 386sx-16 with 8M of RAM (it's not paging at all), 124M IDE drive, 2 com ports, Sigma Legend 1M VGA. There is no delay when running in console mode or running Windows (I know, no comparison, but it isn't a hardware problem). Is it just that my CPU can't handle the context switching fast enough, or is there something else that might be wrong, or a patch that I should apply. Is anyone else running X on a 386sx of any speed, and if so, how responsive is the keyboard? BTW, I'm running a stripped down kernel with no ISOFS or NFS support or support for the SCSI driver or any of the ethernet drivers (340k, 280k stripped). I don't know if this makes any difference. For the record, I have applied the com.c patches to fix the select problem, so that isn't the problem. Any help would be appreciated. I can stand the machine being slow for the most part, but the keyboard lag is really annoying. If it is just the fact of the CPU being too weak I'll probably upgrade to a 25 or 33 Mhz 386DX. If it's something else I'd rather not have to upgrade right now. ++Brett;