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From: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de>
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To: Dave Banning <sky_tracker@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: X screen has become very slow
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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.
> > >
> > > 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?

No.

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

A quick glimpse at the acronym database in the ports revelas PITA as
acronym vor "pain in the ass".  To put this stance more plain: 8 bits
color depth translates to 256 colors on screen, which is not good enough
for photos. gimp tries to overcome the limitations computing the "best"
fit for your 256 colors, this is very slow, although not much better
looking.

> >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 /

That's not dangerous.

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

HTH
-Christoph Sold



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