[25966] in Athena Bugs
9.3.8 linux: xfs/sawfish
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Thu Aug 19 15:58:18 2004
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 15:58:11 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200408191958.i7JJwBCJ029846@multics.mit.edu>
To: bugs@mit.edu
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
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SIPB today had a user come in whose login was extremely slow on 9.3.8
linux machines (but not prior to the update). top indicated that the
font server, xfs, would take 98% of the CPU for extended periods of
time, and any X application would be extremely painful to use, hanging
the interactive portion of the X server (except the mouse) for the
better part of a minute, and longer.
After a relatively painful debugging process, this was traced to
his .sawfish/custom file, which was:
;; sawfish user customization -- do not edit by hand!
;; sawfish version 1.2-gtk2, written Tue Nov 25 15:06:52 2003
(custom-set-typed-variable (quote default-frame-style) (quote Eazel) (quote frame-style))
(custom-set-typed-variable (quote default-font) (quote ("xlfd" . "-cronyx-times-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-p-*-koi8-r")) (quote font))
(custom-set-typed-variable (quote focus-mode) (quote enter-only) (quote symbol))
One tend sto assume it was the default-font line causing the problems,
though I don't really know.
I suspect something is wrong with the font server, but I did not go
any futher with debugging the problem.
Perhaps it will pop up again for other users.
--jhawk
