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Date:      Tue, 6 Jun 2000 00:20:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Dave Banning <sky_tracker@yahoo.com>
To:        Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: X screen has become very slow
Message-ID:  <20000606072054.5689.qmail@web3206.mail.yahoo.com>

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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.
> >
> > Any idea what would cause this?
> 
> No. Some hints, though:
> Use top to locate the process eating up your
> processing time. It will be
> located -surprise-near the top.
> If you're doing graphics, use sensible graphics
> modes: 8bit color depth

is 8 bit good enough for photos?

> causes gimp to be a real PITA, 
what's PITA?

>especially with
> slower CPUs.
> systat displays statistics similiar to top. Check if
> you got enough real
> RAM in your box.
> df may check for filled up disc slices. Any disk
I'm at 76% on /usr and 56% on /

> usage above 95% will
> slow down your machine considerably.
> As always, man is your friend.



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