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From: berry@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Joel R. Berry)
Subject: [386bsd] xfig
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Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 22:12:38 GMT
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Hello all,
    I had been playing with X for a while and I decided to download
the sources to xfig.  I compiled them and they work great.  I just
have one question tho.  When I load one of the example files called
roundboxes2.fig, the redraw takes about 15 seconds.  This is running
on a 386bsd equipped 486 33 Mhz with a STB Pwrgrph.  This was not so
alarming until I ran the program on another machine and sent the
output to my display.  The redraw was in less than a second. 
Okay I thought, too much stuff on my box with the server and the 
application running at the same time. No Problem.  I then saw the
same program with server running on an SCO box.  The server and program
were running on the same machine and the redraw was still less than
a second.  The version I have on my bsd box is 2.1.6 and the version 
on the SCO box was 2.1.4.  The server I am using is the prebuilt one
at agate.  I compiled it before and things were faster, but I put
"real partitioning" on my bsd box and now I dont have enough room
to compile.  What is my performance botleneck. Is the 386bsd system
that much slower at running applications?  Any help would be greatly
appreciated.
joel berry
berry@enuxha.eas.asu.edu

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