On Mon, 30 Jun 1997 00:54:50 -0700 
 Nathan Gelbard <gelbard@ENGR.ORST.EDU> wrote:

 > 	I've got an hp380/25mhz/32mb/NetBSD 1.2E running X, netscape (over
 > the network), xterm/irc, and xterm/extracting ncurses and running
 > 'configure.' My load right now is about 1.40.
 > 
 > 	My X mouse jumps/jerks around the screen when I get a lot of
 > disk activity (3 HPIB/(not fast)) drives.
 > 
 > 	Anything I can do about this?

As far as I can tell, this is due to general lameness in the X server
itself... What can you do about it?  Rewrite the X server :-/

(FWIW, it happens to me even if I'm doing something simple, like
building sh, or something)

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