From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 20 13: 9:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from posgate.acis.com.au (posgate.acis.com.au [203.14.230.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5150614CF9 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 13:09:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (uucp@localhost) by posgate.acis.com.au (8.9.2/8.9.2/Debian/GNU) with UUCP id GAA20532; Thu, 21 Oct 1999 06:00:20 +1000 (EST) Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (central.apana.org.au [203.9.107.245]) by bullseye.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA03874; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 21:04:03 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 20:59:51 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew MacIntyre To: E TiE Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Optimising XFree86 In-Reply-To: <19991019111826.38092.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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). -- Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." E-mail: andrew.macintyre@aba.gov.au (work) | Snail: PO Box 370 andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au (play) | Belconnen ACT 2616 Fido: Andrew MacIntyre, 3:620/243.18 | Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message