> I am running monocrome X on my PB160 (Takashi's kernel from March) with a
> 1.2.1 distribution and X11R6.1.  The system has 12 meg of RAM.  Some X clients
> like editres and many others start up in a reasonable amount of time.  Others
> like Chimera take literally about 25 minutes to start.  They are not that
> different in size, and no swapping takes place, so I don't think it's a
> memory problem.
> 
> Does anyone have any idea why this might be?

Excessive FPU use? The PB160 lacks a real FPU, correct? Then all FPU
use will hit the FPE (Floating Point Emulator for the acronymicly
unsure), which is not terribly fast. :-(

Take care,

Bill