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I just upgraded my Sparc from SunOS 4.1 to 4.1.2 and from OpenLook
version 2 to version 3.  I'm having various problems with ths
configuration, but the most disturbing is that when I start Epoch 3.2
OR 4.0, my system get incredibly bogged down, with my perfmeter pegged
at 100%.  A ps auxw shows me that the two processes that are eating my
machine alive are xnews and epoch.

I am somewhat ignorant of the nasty details of the OS configuration,
so something might be configured wrong.  ANY and ALL suggestions of
why this might be happening (and how to solve them!) would be greatly
appreciated.  Things are so slow right now that I can type about two
lines ahead of what Epoch can echo (and nothing else is running on the
machine!).  When I exit Epoch, the CPU utilization drops back to
normal levels.  Note that all was just fine under OpenLook/OpenWindows
2.0.

Thanks in advance for any/all help!

-EricF

P.S. xnews seems to be always at the top of my ps auxw listing, but it doesn't 
seem to really affect performance.  It's when Epoch gets into the act that
all hell breaks loose.  Xnews seems normally to be at 7.7% of the CPU, but
when Epoch is running it leaps to 30-40%.  Brrrrr...