[4925] in testers
9.0.9 ifb: Ssssslow repainting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Thu Jun 28 21:14:11 2001
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 21:14:07 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200106290114.VAA25025@multics.mit.edu>
To: testers@mit.edu
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
I just noticed that under some conditions, xterm repainting can be
*extremely* slow (again, no gnome).
If I take an 80x48 xterm and move it, or occlude it, _sometimes_
it takes about 600ms to repaint. Other times it is instantaneous.
I can't really find a pattern. Every time I think I have it reproducible,
when I grab my stopwatch and a third hand, it stops happening.
I wonder if there is some sort of caching timeout affecting it.
I don't know what else to say. I could run xterm under xscope, but
I'm not sure how that would help.
--jhawk
