Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:

> I strongly suspect the "slow X11" is no valid description of the problem.
> "Sucks up 90% sys cpu time without any disk i/o and any unusual emulation
> traps" is, however.

I'm using a P2-400 with Millenium 2 PCI, DMA IDE disc etc. I can
recreate the 'sucking performance' issue by running a compile (this
works both under X and not under X, but is easier to tell under X by
looking at the mouse pointer) and a fairly system-time heavy process
line ./configure.

	Neil

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Neil A. Carson