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Date: Sun, 26 May 1996 16:00:38 -0400
From: Andrew Herdman <andrew@why.whine.com>
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On Sun, 26 May 1996, John Fieber wrote:

> I just `upgraded' from XFree86 3.1.2 to 3.1.2E.  Now `idle' xterm
> process sit chewing up cpu time.  A couple xterms will keep the
> load average around 1 on an otherwise completely idle system.
> 
> I'm running the May 1st FreeBSD-2.2 snapshot.  Has anyone else
> noticed this?

I have noticed that with the X312E release (Ma64 sever) that the load 
average runs very very high compared to the 3.1.2D.  I never noticed what 
it was but xterms seem plausible as the load is small when the machine is 
not running an xterm.

Andrew