Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 20:59:51 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au> To: E TiE <e_tie@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Optimising XFree86 Message-ID: <Pine.OS2.3.95.991020205759.335B-100000@CENTRAL> In-Reply-To: <19991019111826.38092.qmail@hotmail.com>
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On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, E TiE wrote:
> I recently installed FreeBSD 3.3 on a Pentium 120Mhz machine w/ 40 megs RAM
> and a 128MB swap partition. My problem is that X Window runs unbearably slow
> on it -- redraws are particularly slow. I've since been searching everywhere
> for information on how to optimize X Window but nothing (except for upping
> the proc priority) has turned up. Does anyone have any pointers/info to
> share? Thanks.
>
> PS: The computer has a Matrox Millennium G200 8MB graphics card.
Hmmm.... what else are you running? man vmstat and check whether you're
swapping (top is also useful for getting an idea of memory usage).
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