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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!swsbe6.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!news.uni-ulm.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uni-regensburg.de!lrz-muenchen.de!faui0n.informatik.uni-erlangen.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problem with mice Date: 15 Nov 1995 23:02:40 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 16 Message-ID: <48do20$9g9@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <482t6g$m9a@panix.com> <HENRYT.95Nov13121706@tabor> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Henry Tieman <henryt@tabor> wrote: >I have seen this with my computer when X is very busy doing >something and I move the mouse around. This is almost always >when I start a new program or change fonts. The X server >included with FreeBSD(and I assume other free unixes) uses >large amounts of cpu when asked to do font size conversions or >use a resizeable font. In this case, you might win by setting up a font server (xfs(1)). This is kinda poor man's multithreading. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)