[26094] in Athena Bugs
Re: 9.3.8 linux: xfs/sawfish
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Mon Oct 4 12:08:24 2004
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 12:02:33 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200410041602.i94G2XxW024361@multics.mit.edu>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
In-reply-to: "[25966] in Athena Bugs"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
cc: bugs@mit.edu
Errors-To: bugs-bounces@mit.edu
In mid-August I wrote:
| 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:
...
| (custom-set-typed-variable (quote default-font) (quote ("xlfd" . "-cronyx-times-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-p-*-koi8-r")) (quote font))
...
I just had another user with this problem. In his case, his
font was an adobe helvetica variant.
I suspect this is a problem affecting enough users that somebody should
try to look into it and understand it.
I wonder how many think Athena is pathetically slow and have just given
up. This user noted that if he used a Sunblade 1500, performance
appeared to be acceptable. ha ha.
--jhawk
