On Fri, 18 May 2001, dfox wrote:
>> I wrote:
> > If I open all programs I am going to use, then switching between them
> > seems reasonably fast. However, if one of them needs to open a new window,
>
> Does this happen independently of how many windows are already open, or
> what window manager is being used? For instance, if you open up an xterm
> (should be pretty instantaneous) on a lightly-loaded system, does it take
> the same (slow) time as under other situations?
With nothing open, an xterm takes several seconds to appear. Using Mandrake
7.1, the same xterm comes up in about half a second.
> I'm thinking that it might have to do with your X server - since opening
> a window does take at least some effort from the server, maybe it's eating
> up a lot of memory and part of it is in swap. That could explain the slow-
> down.
Thanks, I will file this with the other suggestions - some day when I have
nothing better to do, I'll re-load Mandrake 8.0 and go thru all the
suggested solutions. If I find one that works, I'll be sure to post it here.
Regards,
Irv
