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From: Andrew Berry
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:00

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Thanks to all those who replied to my question about performance
problems with X11 and linux.  The problem was that my X server was
spending all of its time generating scalable fonts (which uses lots of
maths) and wouldn't respond to keyboard or mouse input while generating
them. 

The solution I have (successfully) used for now is to remove the
scalable fonts from my font path (in /usr/lib/X11/XF86Config).  I'm also
buying a 486DX CPU so I get maths on-chip.  Another good suggestion was
to run a separate font server (xfs), which means that the X server would
not be generating the fonts, and hence wouldn't lock up.  I haven't yet
tried that suggestion.

Ta.

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