Subject: More about Mosaic
To: None <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Jason S. <root@myname.my.domain>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/17/1997 08:59:28
The first time I tried the precompiled Mosaic, it took about a
half-hour to start up, locking up X completely.
I followed the advice that Ken gave to someone else (a couple of
xset lines in .xinitrc) and X gave the message "no fonts removed from
path" or something like that.
So I started Mosaic. It's been over 15 minutes, and X has been locked
up as tight as a drum pretty much since. (The Xclock is updating
every five minutes or so.) According to systat vmstat, the system is
eating up about 95% of the CPU. (However, I'm having no problems
running a terminal emulator on my other Mac. Oh how I love NetBSD!)
My machine is a P450 (25 MHz '030 sans FPU). The path to the Type 1
fonts is the same as in Ken's suggested commands.
Note well that I am not posting this as a complaint! I'm just curious
as to why (1) my machine takes soooooo loooong to start Mosaic and (2)
why X locks up sooooo tightly when Mosaic starts up. (Arena and Chimera
start pretty fast and don't lock X when they are starting).
I figure that the 25 MHz '030 sans FPU is completely unsuitable for
Mosaic!
J.