[12035] in Athena Bugs
decmips 7.6G: frame
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Wed May 11 16:25:40 1994
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Subject: Re: decmips 7.6G: frame
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Hi,
thanks for giving consideration to my bug report. I'll try to better explain
what I experienced. I am working on my master thesis. I am using framemaker
to write down it, and I need many graphic objects to help the text
comprehension. Many of these graphs are *.eps files produced by Matlab, and
some others are produced, also as *.eps files, by Autocad. My frame
documents are ''heavy'': many pages and lots of graphs. I often need to
edit the graphs for consistency with the text I've been writing, and
therefore, I always have both matlab and autocad iconized and ready to run.
On different DEC-5000s, this ''heavy load'' makes the following:
1) Deteriorated performance of the workstation (I know, in a sense it's my fault)
2) Colors become messy: the frame bars get a funny fuchsia instead of the usual
black, and the matlab graphs in the matlab graphics windows loose many lines
when the mouse pointer doesn't point in that window (this happens on the
SPARCclassic, too)
3) Sometimes the system gets stuck while attempting to import a graphic *.eps
file: the monitor area in which the imported graphic is supposed to go tends
to expand in other areas, and the system simply gets stuck on it. No way to
use any program anymore, and it ususally reboots after a while. A couple of
times the reboot failed, and I had to reboot it by the keyboard command.
I should stress that this happens in heavy duty conditions on the DEC 5000, but
it happened only once on the SPARCclassic, on which I am currently working.
I hope that I explained the problem better than before.
Thanks for your time.
Antonio Occhiuzzi
