Are you running a font server (xfs and/or xfstt)? I understand that the X servers can appear to freeze when attempting to process certain fonts... running a font server offloads that task to a background process, so that only the application requesting the font is forced to wait.
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 09:41:00AM -0500, Harrison, Shawn wrote: > When working in X, I sometimes find that my screen becomes frozen or very > sluggish. On other occasions the mouse alone is very unresponsive. I > haven't found a pattern to it, although it seems to happen more often > when running Arena, Amaya, gzilla, and perhaps TkInfo (although I'm not > sure about the last one). Does anyone else experience this behavior? Does > anyone know a remedy? Some pertinent stats: > > 200 Mhz 6x86 Cyrix processor > 64 MB SDRAM > S3VirGe Video Card > Running X with S3V server > icewm (out of the box) > xdm > old vga monitor (the irony of it, considering s3v etc.)
