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From: Tom Bartol <bartol@salk.edu>
To: Ken Krebs <schrade@schrade.com>
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Subject: Re: Latest changes to kernel are causing X slowdowns
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I can confirm this problem as well.  I haven't tried backing out to the
24th yet but things are definitely slower in X here with the world and
kernel I just made this morning.  Netscape is especially slow.  My
previous build was circa 980323. 


Tom


On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Ken Krebs wrote:

> 
> Has anyone else experienced the extreme slowness caused by the latest
> changes to the kernel sources?
> 
> On the 30th, there were bunches of changes to the /usr/src/sys tree.  When
> I compiled kernel after these changes, anything I do in X is really really
> slow.  If I run top in an xterm, the initial drawing of the top screen is
> like it's running over a 9600 baud modem.  When I load up Netscape, the
> takes a while for it to redraw windows and there's just various things
> that are being affected.  (All I can see is just graphics slowness at this
> point)
> 
> I rebooted with a kernel I made on the 24th and everything was back to
> normal.
> 
> Anyone else experienced this?
> 
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