On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 02:30:18AM +0800, Alex Balayan wrote: > Recently I had the pleasure of installing the Slackware 9.0 on my IBM > ThinkPad 600E (128Meg/RAM). Kernel 2.4.20 running XFree86 4.3.0. > It seems X-Windows starts to run really slow when I use Mozilla. Allot of > lag. TOP shows X and mozilla-bin processes peaking.
I read somewhere that under certain conditions, some linux kernels suddenly think X is not an interactive process, and so reduces it's priority. You might try raising X's priority with 'nice', (even though generally it's not a good thing to do) Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
