From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 8 10:40:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C46C37BBCE for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 10:40:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id VAA30386; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 21:43:04 +0200 Message-ID: <393FDA8F.176FDF7F@i-clue.de> Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 19:40:31 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Organization: i-clue interactive GmbH X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: sky_tracker@yahoo.com Cc: Christoph Sold , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X screen has become very slow References: <20000606072054.5689.qmail@web3206.mail.yahoo.com> <393D7BC2.6D1AE908@i-clue.de> <00060623413900.01238@tracker> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Apologies for the late reply. David Banning wrote: > OK for now I will up my colour to 16 - but shouldn't I be able to > run 32 bit color on 48 Meg on a standalone machine doing nothing else but > running KDE? You should. Thats why I prefer xfce over KDE on small boxes -- KDE is somewhat of a resource hog. > On Tue, 06 Jun 2000, Christoph Sold wrote: > > Dave Banning wrote: > > > > > Thanks for your reply. > > > I tried top - your right - X is using like 25 Meg! > > > Process time being eaten is minimal > > > > > My system version 3.4 with 3.3.6 (X) using KDE > > > > > All of a sudden all of X is very slow - even using > > > > "ls" > > > > > the screen has a hard time keeping up. Not using ETerm, ATerm or other graphical stuff might help. Y'know, cool graphics need cool machines. > > > > > Any idea what would cause this? transparent backgrounds for instance ;-) HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message